ꜣms

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑmɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: ames

Etymology 1

From ꜣm (“is grasped”) +‎ .s (“she, it”) or ꜣm (“is grasped”) +‎ sj (“she, it”), thus literally ‘it is grasped’.

Noun

 m

1. a type of club or mace, the ames-sceptre, used as a weapon by the king and the gods [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. an epithet of the god Osiris [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of ꜣms (masculine)

singular	ꜣms
dual	ꜣmswj
plural	ꜣmsw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣms  

ꜣms	ꜣms	ꜣms	jms	ꜣms	ꜣms
			[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to wield the ames-sceptre [Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜣms ꜣmsw, ꜣms ꜣmst ꜣms ꜣms ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜣms ḥr ꜣms m ꜣms r ꜣms suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ꜣms.n consecutive ꜣms.jn terminative ꜣmst perfective3 ꜣms obligative1 ꜣms.ḫr imperfective ꜣms prospective3 ꜣms potentialis1 ꜣms.kꜣ subjunctive ꜣms verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ꜣms.n — — perfective ꜣms ꜣms ꜣms, ꜣmsw5, ꜣmsy5 imperfective ꜣms, ꜣmsy, ꜣmsw5 ꜣms, ꜣmsj6, ꜣmsy6 ꜣms, ꜣmsw5 prospective ꜣms, ꜣmstj7 ꜣmstj4, ꜣmst4 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.

Etymology 2

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) Only used in ꜣms-jb (“to be(come) happy, to be(come) cordial”)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜣms ꜣmsw, ꜣms ꜣmst ꜣms ꜣms ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜣms ḥr ꜣms m ꜣms r ꜣms suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ꜣms.n ꜣmsw, ꜣms consecutive ꜣms.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜣmst perfective3 ꜣms active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜣms.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜣms active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜣms ꜣmss potentialis1 ꜣms.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜣms active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ꜣms.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ꜣms active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜣms ꜣms, ꜣmsw5, ꜣmsy5 imperfective ꜣms, ꜣmsy, ꜣmsw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜣms, ꜣmsj6, ꜣmsy6 ꜣms, ꜣmsw5 prospective ꜣms, ꜣmstj7 — ꜣmstj4, ꜣmst4 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.

Alternative forms

See the forms at ꜣms-jb.

Etymology 3

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of jwms (“exaggeration, nonsense”)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 11.3–11.7, 11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3