ḥmw

See also: ḫmw

Egyptian

Declension of ḥmw

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḥmw	—

A participial form of ḥm (“to steer”).

m

Declension of ḥmw (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥmw

ḥmw

3-lit.

Conjugation of ḥmw (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥmw

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḥmw	ḥmww, ḥmw	ḥmwt	ḥmw	ḥmw

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ḥmw.n	—	—
perfective	ḥmw	ḥmw	ḥmw, ḥmww⁵, ḥmwy⁵
imperfective	ḥmw, ḥmwy, ḥmww⁵	ḥmw, ḥmwj⁶, ḥmwy⁶	ḥmw, ḥmww⁵
prospective	ḥmw, ḥmwtj⁷	ḥmwtj⁴, ḥmwt⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 382 page 102, 382.
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN