ꜣm

Egyptian

2-lit.

(intransitive, of fire) to burn
(intransitive) to be consumed by fire, to burn (+ m: to be burned by (fire))
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 130–131:
  
  pr.n nꜣ m ḫt m-ꜥ.f ḫpr.n r.s nn wj ḥnꜥ(w) ꜣm.nj nn wj m ḥr(j) jb.sn
  They went up in flames because of it. But it happened while I wasn’t with them, and they burned up while I wasn’t in their midst.
(transitive) to cause to be consumed by fire, to burn (+ m: to burn with (fire))

Conjugation of ꜣm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ꜣm, geminated stem: ꜣmm

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜣm	ꜣmw, ꜣm	ꜣmt	ꜣm, j.ꜣm	ꜣm, j.ꜣm

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜣm.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ꜣm	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜣm	ꜣmm, ꜣmmj⁶, ꜣm², ꜣmw^{2 5}, ꜣmy^{2 5}
imperfective	j.ꜣm¹, ꜣm, ꜣmy, ꜣmw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.ꜣm¹, j.ꜣmw^{1 5}, ꜣm, ꜣmj⁶, ꜣmy⁶	ꜣm, ꜣmw⁵
prospective	ꜣm, ꜣmtj⁷	—	ꜣmtj⁴, ꜣmt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of ꜣm

ꜣm

jꜣm

[New Kingdom]

[Greco-Roman Period]

From ꜣmm (“to grasp, to seize”).

m

the Seizer: epithet for various divine entities in lion-like forms [Greco-Roman Period]
1. epithet of Horus in the form of a lion
2. epithet of Horus in the form of a hieracosphinx
3. epithet of the king, presumably as Horus
4. used in reference to a gargoyle or waterspout, presumably in the form of Horus as a lion

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣm

ꜣm

in the sense ‘Horus as hieracosphinx’

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 10.1–10.3, 10.6–10.9, 31
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3