From ꜣm ( “ is grasped ” ) + .s ( “ she, it ” ) or ꜣm ( “ is grasped ” ) + sj ( “ she, it ” ) , thus literally ‘it is grasped’.[ 1]
m
a type of club or mace , the ames-sceptre , used as a weapon by the king and the gods [since the Pyramid Texts]
an epithet of the god Osiris [Greco-Roman Period]
Declension of ꜣms (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣms
ꜣms ꜣms ꜣms jms ꜣms ꜣms
[Late Period]
[Greco-Roman Period]
[Greco-Roman Period]
3-lit.
( intransitive ) wield the ames-sceptre [Pyramid Texts]
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 imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
ꜣms ḥr ꜣms m ꜣms r ꜣms
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
contingent
aspect / mood
active
perfect
ꜣms.n consecutive
ꜣms.jn
terminative
ꜣmst
perfective 3
ꜣms obligative1
ꜣms.ḫr
imperfective
ꜣms
prospective 3
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 , ꜣmsw 5 , ꜣmsy 5
imperfective
ꜣms , ꜣmsy , ꜣmsw 5 ꜣms , ꜣmsj 6 , ꜣmsy 6 ꜣms , ꜣmsw 5
prospective
ꜣms , ꜣmstj 7 ꜣmstj 4 , ꜣmst 4
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 .s .sj .sn .snj .sn
Only in the masculine singular.
Only in the masculine.
Only in the feminine.
3-lit.
( transitive ) Only used in ꜣms-jb ( “ to be(come) happy, to be(come) cordial ” )
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 imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
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 + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
terminative
ꜣmst
perfective 3
ꜣms active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 obligative1
ꜣms.ḫr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
imperfective
ꜣms active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
prospective 3
ꜣms ꜣmss potentialis1
ꜣms.kꜣ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
subjunctive
ꜣms active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
ꜣms.n active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 —
—
perfective
ꜣms active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 ꜣms ꜣms , ꜣmsw 5 , ꜣmsy 5
imperfective
ꜣms , ꜣmsy , ꜣmsw 5 active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 ꜣms , ꜣmsj 6 , ꜣmsy 6 ꜣms , ꜣmsw 5
prospective
ꜣms , ꜣmstj 7 —
ꜣmstj 4 , ꜣmst 4
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 .s .sj .sn .snj .sn
Only in the masculine singular.
Only in the masculine.
Only in the feminine.
See the forms at ꜣms-jb
m
Alternative form of jwms ( “ exaggeration, nonsense ” ) Erman, Adolf , Grapow, Hermann (1926 ) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [1] →ISBN pages 11.3–11.7, 11 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN page 3
^ Gundacker, Roman (2011) “On the Etymology of the Egyptian Crown Name mrsw.t *: An “Irregular” Subgroup of m -Prefix Formations” in Lingua Aegyptia , volume 19, page 38
