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 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 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