ꜣmj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑmi/
  • Conventional anglicization: ami

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to mix (+ ḥr: with (something); + m: into (a resulting mixture)) [Coffin Texts and medical papyri; sporadically later]

   ꜣmj m ḫt wꜥt

   to mix (medicines, etc.) together

   ꜣmj t-ḥḏ

   to knead dough for white bread

2. (transitive) to trample out (grapes for wine)

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣmj (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣmj

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣmj	ꜣmjw, ꜣmj	ꜣmjt	ꜣmj	ꜣmj

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜣmj.n	ꜣmjw, ꜣmj	consecutive	ꜣmj.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ꜣmjt
perfective3	ꜣmj	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ꜣmj.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ꜣmj	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ꜣmj	ꜣmj	potentialis1	ꜣmj.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ꜣmj	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜣmj.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ꜣmj	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜣmj	ꜣmj, ꜣmjw5, ꜣmjy5
imperfective	ꜣmj, ꜣmjy, ꜣmjw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜣmj, ꜣmjj6, ꜣmjy6	ꜣmj, ꜣmjw5
prospective	ꜣmj, ꜣmjtj7	—	ꜣmjtj4, ꜣmjt4
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.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 10.10–10.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
• Hannig, Rainer (1997) Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch: die Sprache der Pharaonen (2800–950 v. Chr.) (Hannig-Lexica; 1), second edition, Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, →ISBN, page 8