ḫꜣm
See also: ḥꜣm
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɑm/
- Conventional anglicization: kham
Verb
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3-lit.
- (transitive) to bend (one’s arms or back) as a sign of reverence [since the Middle Kingdom]
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 86–88:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n wšb.n.j n.f st ꜥwj.j ḫꜣm(.w) m bꜣḥ.f ḏd.j n.f
- Then I answered him this, my arms bowed before him, saying to him: […]
- (intransitive) to bow down in reverence [since the Middle Kingdom]
- (transitive, Late Egyptian) to hold on to, to keep in one’s possession
- (transitive, Late Egyptian) to succeed in
Inflection
editConjugation of ḫꜣm (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḫꜣm, geminated stem: ḫꜣmm
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
ḫꜣm |
ḫꜣmw, ḫꜣm |
ḫꜣmt |
ḫꜣm |
ḫꜣm |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
ḫꜣm |
ḥr ḫꜣm |
m ḫꜣm |
r ḫꜣm |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | ḫꜣm.n |
ḫꜣmw, ḫꜣm |
consecutive | ḫꜣm.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | ḫꜣmt | ||||
perfective3 | ḫꜣm |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | ḫꜣm.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | ḫꜣm |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | ḫꜣm |
ḫꜣmm |
potentialis1 | ḫꜣm.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | ḫꜣm |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | ḫꜣm.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | ḫꜣm |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
ḫꜣm |
ḫꜣm, ḫꜣmw5, ḫꜣmy5 |
imperfective | ḫꜣm, ḫꜣmy, ḫꜣmw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
ḫꜣm, ḫꜣmj6, ḫꜣmy6 |
ḫꜣm, ḫꜣmw5 |
prospective | ḫꜣm, ḫꜣmtj7 |
— | ḫꜣmtj4, ḫꜣmt4 | |
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Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫꜣm
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ḫꜣm | ẖꜣm | ḫꜣm | |||||||||||||||
[Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] |
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 231.2–231.12
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 184