jmḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: imeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. to sip [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of jmḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jmḥ, geminated stem: jmḥḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jmḥ	jmḥw, jmḥ	jmḥt	jmḥ	jmḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jmḥ.n	jmḥw, jmḥ	consecutive	jmḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jmḥt
perfective3	jmḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jmḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jmḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jmḥ	jmḥḥ	potentialis1	jmḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jmḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jmḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jmḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	jmḥ	jmḥ, jmḥw5, jmḥy5
imperfective	jmḥ, jmḥy, jmḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	jmḥ, jmḥj6, jmḥy6	jmḥ, jmḥw5
prospective	jmḥ, jmḥtj7	—	jmḥtj4, jmḥt4
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 forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmḥ  

jmḥ

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 88