ꜥmḏ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈʕaːmət͡ʃʼ/ → /ˈʕoːmət͡ʃʼ/

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕaːmət͡ʃʼ/ (infinitive)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕoːmət͡ʃʼ/ (infinitive)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːmɛd͡ʒ/
  • Conventional anglicization: amedj

Verb

 3-lit.

1. to turn away [Late Egyptian]
   • c. 7th century B.C.E., Karnak temple, J2 fragment of an inscription of Taharqa, columns 5–6

     …

     j jmn p(ꜣ) (j.)jr.j n p(ꜣ) tꜣ nḥs j.dj […] jmj jr.j sw n p(ꜣy).k jnw n(j) p(ꜣ) tꜣ n(j) ḫꜣr(w) j.Ꜥmḏ r-r.k

     O Amun, what I did in the Land of Nubia, grant […] let me do it with your tribute from the land of Syria which is turned away from you.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜥmḏ ꜥmḏw, ꜥmḏ ꜥmḏt ꜥmḏ ꜥmḏ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜥmḏ ḥr ꜥmḏ m ꜥmḏ r ꜥmḏ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ꜥmḏ.n ꜥmḏw, ꜥmḏ consecutive ꜥmḏ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜥmḏt perfective3 ꜥmḏ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜥmḏ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜥmḏ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜥmḏ ꜥmḏḏ potentialis1 ꜥmḏ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜥmḏ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ꜥmḏ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ꜥmḏ active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜥmḏ ꜥmḏ, ꜥmḏw5, ꜥmḏy5 imperfective ꜥmḏ, ꜥmḏy, ꜥmḏw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜥmḏ, ꜥmḏj6, ꜥmḏy6 ꜥmḏ, ꜥmḏw5 prospective ꜥmḏ, ꜥmḏtj7 — ꜥmḏtj4, ꜥmḏt4 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.

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲱⲙϫ (ōmč)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 104