s- (causative prefix) + ḫm (“to not know”), apparently with metathesis.
caus. 2-lit.
- (transitive) to forget, to no longer know (something) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)
- (catenative) to forget (to do something)
- (transitive) to neglect, to overlook, to pay no heed to (someone or something)
- (transitive) to not think about (something unpleasant: death, worries, etc.)
Conjugation of smḫ (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: smḫ
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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smḫt, smḫ
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smḫw, smḫ
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smḫt
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smḫ
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smḫ
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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smḫ
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ḥr smḫ
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m smḫ
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r smḫ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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smḫ.n
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smḫw, smḫ
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consecutive
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smḫ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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smḫt
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| perfective3
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smḫ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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smḫ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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smḫ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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smḫw, smḫ, smḫy
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smḫw, smḫ, smḫy
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potentialis1
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smḫ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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smḫ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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smḫ.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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smḫ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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smḫ
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smḫ, smḫw5, smḫy5
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| imperfective
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smḫ, smḫy, smḫw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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smḫ, smḫj6, smḫy6
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smḫ, smḫw5
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| prospective
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smḫ, smḫtj7
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—
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smḫwtj1 4, smḫtj4, smḫt4
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- 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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of smḫ
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| smḫ
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smḫ
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sḫm
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sḫm
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sšm
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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- “smḫ (lemma ID 135600)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 140.16–141.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 229
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 290.
