ꜥm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
amF10A2

 2-lit.

  1. (transitive) To swallow, devour.
    • c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — gable of the west wall of the burial chamber, line 4–5, spell 226.3:[1]
      tAiamn
      k      		 pr
      r
      t      		 imk
      h      		 iwsM37
      r      		 A55zbn
      tꜣ j.ꜥm n.k prt jm.k hjw sḏr zbn
      Earth, swallow up into yourself what has emerged from you! Hiu-serpent, lie down, crawl away!
  2. (transitive) To know.

Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ꜥm, geminated stem: ꜥmm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜥm
 ꜥmw, ꜥm
 ꜥmt
 ꜥm, j.ꜥm
 ꜥm, j.ꜥm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜥm
 ḥr ꜥm
 m ꜥm
 r ꜥm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ꜥm.n
 ꜥmw, ꜥm
 consecutive ꜥm.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ꜥmt
perfective3 ꜥm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ꜥm.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ꜥm, j.ꜥm1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ꜥm
 ꜥmm
 potentialis1 ꜥm.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ꜥm, j.ꜥm1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ꜥm.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ꜥm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜥm
 ꜥmm, ꜥmmj6, ꜥm2, ꜥmw2 5, ꜥmy2 5
imperfective j.ꜥm1, ꜥm, ꜥmy, ꜥmw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 j.ꜥm1, j.ꜥmw1 5, ꜥm, ꜥmj6, ꜥmy6
 ꜥm, ꜥmw5
prospective ꜥm, ꜥmtj7
 — ꜥmtj4, ꜥmt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥm  
amA2
ꜥm

Derived terms

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 457.
  1. Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume I, Providence: Brown University, PT 226.3 (Pyr. 225c), W
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