kꜣm
Egyptian
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ka/urVm-; compare Proto-West Chadic *kurVm ("woods"), whence Kanuri kulimi (“forest”) and Hausa kurmi (“jungle”); as well as Proto-Semitic *karm, whence Hebrew כֶּרֶם (kerem, “vineyard”), Aramaic כַּרְמָא (karmā, “vineyard”), Arabic كَرْم (karm, “vineyard”). However, Peust argues that these Semitic words must be borrowed from Egyptian, as the Egyptian word seems to have originally been kꜣnw before undergoing a sound change that caused the coalescence of the two final consonants into m.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈkaʀnVw/ → /ˈkaʀm/ → /ˈkoːm/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /kɑm/
- Conventional anglicization: kam
Noun
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m
- vineyard
Inflection
Declension of kꜣm (masculine)
| singular | kꜣm |
|---|---|
| dual | kꜣmwj |
| plural | kꜣmw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kꜣm
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| kꜣm |
Derived terms
- kꜣmw
Descendants
- Demotic: kꜣm
- Coptic: ϭⲱⲙ (cōm)
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 106.3–106.9
- Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 163
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31 (but see also Peust)