ꜣmm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 2ae gem.

  1. (transitive) to grasp, to physically seize (a person or thing; + m: with (one’s hand)) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. (transitive, of animals) to attack or seize as prey
  3. (transitive) to fold or clench together (one’s hands) [26th Dynasty]
  4. (transitive) to take (+ n: to, for (oneself)) [Offering Ritual and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣmm (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: ꜣm, geminated stem: ꜣmm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣmm8
 ꜣmm
 ꜣmmt
 ꜣmm, ꜣm
 ꜣmm, ꜣm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣmm, ꜣm
 ḥr ꜣmm
 m ꜣmm
 r ꜣmm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ꜣmm.n, ꜣm.n
 ꜣm
 consecutive ꜣm.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ꜣmmt
perfective3 ꜣm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative ꜣmm.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ꜣmm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ꜣmm
 ꜣmm
 potentialis ꜣm.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ꜣm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ꜣm.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ꜣm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜣm
 ꜣm, ꜣmw5, ꜣmy5
imperfective ꜣmm, ꜣmmy, ꜣmmw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜣmm, ꜣmmj6, ꜣmmy6
 ꜣmm, ꜣmmw5
prospective ꜣm, ꜣmtj7
 — ꜣmmtj4, ꜣmmt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. ꜣm before suffix pronouns.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣmm  


ꜣmm ꜣmm ꜣm jm ꜣmm
[18th Dynasty] [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
inflected form inflected form abbreviation

Synonyms

Derived terms

Noun

 m

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. grip, grasp [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection
Declension of ꜣmm (masculine)
singular ꜣmm
dual ꜣmmwj
plural ꜣmmw

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 290 page 228, 290.
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 10.17–10.22
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
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