ꜥmꜥm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːmɑːm/
  • Conventional anglicization: amam

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive with n) to massage (someone)

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥmꜥm (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ꜥmꜥm

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥmꜥm	ꜥmꜥmw, ꜥmꜥm	ꜥmꜥmt	ꜥmꜥm	ꜥmꜥm

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜥmꜥm	ḥr ꜥmꜥm	m ꜥmꜥm	r ꜥmꜥm

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥmꜥm.n	consecutive	ꜥmꜥm.jn
terminative	ꜥmꜥmt
perfective3	ꜥmꜥm	obligative1	ꜥmꜥm.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥmꜥm
prospective3	ꜥmꜥmw, ꜥmꜥm	potentialis1	ꜥmꜥm.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥmꜥm

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥmꜥm.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥmꜥm	ꜥmꜥm	ꜥmꜥm, ꜥmꜥmw5, ꜥmꜥmy5
imperfective	ꜥmꜥm, ꜥmꜥmy, ꜥmꜥmw5	ꜥmꜥm, ꜥmꜥmj6, ꜥmꜥmy6	ꜥmꜥm, ꜥmꜥmw5
prospective	ꜥmꜥm, ꜥmꜥmtj7	ꜥmꜥmwtj1 4, ꜥmꜥmtj4, ꜥmꜥmt4
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.

Noun

 m

1. a bread container
   • c. 1825 B.C.E., Kahun papyrus VI. 10. verso, lines 10-12:

     
     
     

     t rmn zmꜣtm ꜥmꜥm
     ꜥꜣdt
     hrr

     bread, armful of eating:in a bread container
     ꜥꜣdt-bread
     hrr-bread

Inflection

Declension of ꜥmꜥm (masculine)

singular	ꜥmꜥm
dual	ꜥmꜥmwj
plural	ꜥmꜥmw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥmꜥm  

ꜥmꜥm

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 183, 457.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 186.5, 186.7