kꜣmn

kꜣmn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑmɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: kamen

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of the eyes) To be blind.
2. (transitive, Late Egyptian) To blind (someone).
3. (intransitive, Late Egyptian) Used in the phrase , meaning blind in one eye.
4. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of the earth during a storm) To be dark.

Inflection

Conjugation of kꜣmn (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: kꜣmn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
kꜣmn	kꜣmnw, kꜣmn	kꜣmnt	kꜣmn	kꜣmn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
kꜣmn	ḥr kꜣmn	m kꜣmn	r kꜣmn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	kꜣmn.n	kꜣmnw, kꜣmn	consecutive	kꜣmn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	kꜣmnt
perfective3	kꜣmn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	kꜣmn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	kꜣmn	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	kꜣmnw, kꜣmn	kꜣmnw, kꜣmn	potentialis1	kꜣmn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	kꜣmn	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	kꜣmn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	kꜣmn	active + .tj1, .tw2	kꜣmn	kꜣmn, kꜣmnw5, kꜣmny5
imperfective	kꜣmn, kꜣmny, kꜣmnw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	kꜣmn, kꜣmnj6, kꜣmny6	kꜣmn, kꜣmnw5
prospective	kꜣmn, kꜣmntj7	—	kꜣmnwtj1 4, kꜣmntj4, kꜣmnt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kꜣmn  

kꜣmn

Descendants

• Old Coptic: ϭⲱⲛⲙ̄ (cōnm̄, “to be blinded”)

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian) blind man

Inflection

Declension of kꜣmn (masculine)

singular	kꜣmn
dual	kꜣmnwj
plural	kꜣmnw

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 107
• Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 821a