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2-lit.
( transitive ) to swallow , devour
c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE ,
Pyramid Texts of Unas — gable of the west wall of the burial chamber, line 4–5, spell 226.3:
[ 1] tꜣ j.ꜥm n.k prt jm.k hjw sḏr zbn Earth, swallow up into yourself what has emerged from you! Hiu-serpent, lie down, crawl away!
( transitive ) to know
Conjugation of ꜥm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ꜥm , geminated stem: ꜥmm
infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive1
singular
plural
ꜥm
ꜥmw , ꜥm
ꜥmt
ꜥm , j.ꜥm
ꜥm , j.ꜥm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
ꜥm
ḥr ꜥm
m ꜥm
r ꜥm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
passive
contingent
aspect / mood
active
passive
perfect
ꜥm.n
ꜥmw , ꜥm
consecutive
ꜥm.jn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
terminative
ꜥmt
perfective 3
ꜥm
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
obligative1
ꜥm.ḫr
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
imperfective
ꜥm , j.ꜥm 1
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
prospective 3
ꜥm
ꜥmm
potentialis1
ꜥm.kꜣ
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
subjunctive
ꜥm , j.ꜥm 1
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
ꜥm.n
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
—
—
perfective
ꜥm
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
ꜥm
ꜥmm , ꜥmmj 6 , ꜥm 2 , ꜥmw 2 5 , ꜥmy 2 5
imperfective
j.ꜥm 1 , ꜥm , ꜥmy , ꜥmw 5
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
j.ꜥm 1 , j.ꜥmw 1 5 , ꜥm , ꜥmj 6 , ꜥmy 6
ꜥm , ꜥmw 5
prospective
ꜥm , ꜥmtj 7
—
ꜥmtj 4 , ꜥmt 4
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 hieroglyphic writings of ꜥm
Demotic: ꜥm
Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲙⲉ ( mme )
Bohairic Coptic: ⲉⲙⲓ ( emi )
Fayyumic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲙⲓ ( eimi ) , ⲓⲙⲓ ( imi )
Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙⲙⲉ ( mme )
Old Coptic: ⲉⲙⲓ ( emi ) , ⲙⲙⲓ ( mmi )
Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲙⲉ ( eime ) , ⲉⲓⲙⲙⲉ ( eimme )
^ Allen, James (2013 ) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts , volume I, Providence: Brown University, PT 226.3 (Pyr. 225c), W