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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- a herald
Inflection
Declension of wḥm (masculine)
Verb
3-lit.
- (transitive) to repeat, to do or say again
- Stela of Ity, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, 586:
- jw wḥm.n(.j) ḥzt ḫr nswt
- I repeated favour before the king
Inflection
Conjugation of wḥm (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wḥm, geminated stem: wḥmm
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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wḥm
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wḥmw, wḥm
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wḥmt
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wḥm
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wḥm
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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wḥm
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ḥr wḥm
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m wḥm
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r wḥm
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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wḥm.n
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wḥmw, wḥm
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consecutive
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wḥm.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wḥmt
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| perfective3
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wḥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wḥm.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wḥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wḥm
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wḥmm
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potentialis1
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wḥm.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wḥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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wḥm.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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wḥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wḥm
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wḥm, wḥmw5, wḥmy5
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| imperfective
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wḥm, wḥmy, wḥmw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wḥm, wḥmj6, wḥmy6
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wḥm, wḥmw5
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| prospective
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wḥm, wḥmtj7
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—
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wḥmtj4, wḥmt4
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- Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
- Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
- Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
- Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
- Only in the masculine singular.
- Only in the masculine.
- Only in the feminine.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥm
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 250.
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 223
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 242
