ḥmsj
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈħimsit/ → /ˈħimsiʔ/ → /ˈħemsa/ → /ˈħemsə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɛmɛsi/
- Conventional anglicization: hemesi
Verb
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4ae inf.
- (intransitive) to sit down, to sit (+ ḥr: on, at; + m: in; + r: beside, at; + r and infinitive: in order to do (something)) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.7–1.8:
- jr ḥms.k ḥnꜥ ꜣfꜥ wnm.k ꜣḫf.f swꜣ(.w)
- If you sit with a glutton, you should eat when his burning appetite has passed.
- (intransitive) to dwell, to stay or live (+ m: in, at; + ḥnꜥ: with)
- (intransitive, with ḥr) to besiege (a place) [since the 18th Dynasty]
- (transitive) to occupy (a seat, etc.) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to seat (someone) [since the Pyramid Texts]
Inflection
editConjugation of ḥmsj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḥms
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
ḥmst, ḥmsj |
ḥmsw, ḥmsyw, ḥms |
ḥmst, ḥmswt, ḥmsyt |
ḥms |
ḥms, ḥmsy |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
ḥms8 |
ḥr ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj |
m ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj |
r ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | ḥms.n |
ḥmsw, ḥms, ḥmsy |
consecutive | ḥms.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | ḥmst | ||||
perfective3 | ḥms |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | ḥms.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | ḥms, ḥmsy |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | ḥmsw, ḥms, ḥmsy |
ḥms |
potentialis1 | ḥms.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | ḥms, ḥmsy |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | ḥms.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | ḥmsw1, ḥmsy, ḥms |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
ḥms |
ḥmsy, ḥms |
imperfective | ḥms, ḥmsy, ḥmsw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
ḥms, ḥmsj6, ḥmsy6 |
ḥms, ḥmsw5 |
prospective | ḥmsw1, ḥmsy, ḥms, ḥmstj7 |
— | ḥmswtj1 4, ḥmstj4, ḥmst4 | |
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Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥmsj
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Descendants
edit- Demotic: ḥms
See also
editReferences
edit- “ḥmsi̯ (lemma ID 105780)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 96.13–98.22
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 170
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 157, 207, 250, 255, 271.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 55
- ^ Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2015) Westcar Papyrus, page 8