ꜥḫm
See also: ꜥẖm
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːxɛm/
- Conventional anglicization: akhem
Verb
3-lit.
- (transitive) to quench, to extinguish (fire, thirst, wind, rebellion, etc.)
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.5–1.6:
- jw jkn n(j) mw ꜥḫm.f jbt jw mḥ{t}⟨w⟩ r(ꜣ) m šww smn.f jb
- For a cup of water quenches thirst, for a mouthful of šww-herbs makes the heart firm.
- (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of water) to dry up
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥḫm (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥḫm, geminated stem: ꜥḫmm
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
ꜥḫm | ꜥḫmw, ꜥḫm | ꜥḫmt | ꜥḫm | ꜥḫm |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
ꜥḫm | ḥr ꜥḫm | m ꜥḫm | r ꜥḫm |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | ꜥḫm.n | ꜥḫmw, ꜥḫm | consecutive | ꜥḫm.jn | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | ꜥḫmt | ||||
perfective3 | ꜥḫm | active + .tj1, .tw2 | obligative | ꜥḫm.ḫr | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | ꜥḫm | active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | ꜥḫm | ꜥḫmm | potentialis | ꜥḫm.kꜣ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | ꜥḫm | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | ꜥḫm.n | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
perfective | ꜥḫm | active + .tj1, .tw2 | ꜥḫm | ꜥḫm, ꜥḫmw5, ꜥḫmy5 |
imperfective | ꜥḫm, ꜥḫmy, ꜥḫmw5 | active + .tj1, .tw2 | ꜥḫm, ꜥḫmj6, ꜥḫmy6 | ꜥḫm, ꜥḫmw5 |
prospective | ꜥḫm, ꜥḫmtj7 | — | ꜥḫmtj4, ꜥḫmt4 | |
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥḫm
ꜥḫm | ꜥḫm |
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 224.15–224.19
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 48
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 458.