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harbor , mooring
c. 1859 BCE – 1800 BCE ,
The Eloquent Peasant, version B2 (pAmherst 2 and pBerlin 3025) lines 101–103:
jr sqdd ẖr.f nj sꜣḥ.n.f tꜣ nj mjn.n dpwt.f r dmj .s As for him who sails with it, he cannot set foot on land, and his boat cannot moor at its harbor .
locality , quarter , town
c. 1944 BCE , (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I ), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184 ), lines 11–12:
nj sḏr z ḥqr.w r dmj .j No one went to bed hungry in my district .
dry land , ground not covered by water [Greco-Roman Period]
Declension of dmj (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dmj
Demotic: tmj
Akhmimic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉ ( time )
Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲓ ( timi ) , ⲧⲓⲙⲓ ( timi )
Fayyumic Coptic: ϯⲙⲓ ( timi ) , ⲧⲓⲙⲓ ( timi )
Lycopolitan Coptic: ϯⲙⲉ ( time )
Sahidic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉ ( time ) , ⲧⲓⲙⲉ ( time )
⇒ ? Coptic: ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ ( tamiati )
3-lit.
( transitive ) to touch
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE ,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 136–138:
wn.k(w) r.f dmꜣ.kw ḥr ẖt.j dmj.n .j zꜣtw m bꜣḥ.f At that I was stretched out on my belly, having touched the ground before him,
( transitive ) to reach (a place)
( transitive ) to join with, to attach oneself to (someone) [New Kingdom]
( transitive ) to take part in (jubilation ) [New Kingdom]
( transitive ) to salve (+ n : someone) with (a salve ) [19th Dynasty]
Conjugation of dmj (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: dmj
infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive1
singular
plural
dmj
dmjw , dmj
dmjt
dmj
dmj
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
dmj
ḥr dmj
m dmj
r dmj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
passive
contingent
aspect / mood
active
passive
perfect
dmj.n
dmjw , dmj
consecutive
dmj.jn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
terminative
dmjt
perfective 3
dmj
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
obligative1
dmj.ḫr
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
imperfective
dmj
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
prospective 3
dmj
dmj
potentialis1
dmj.kꜣ
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
subjunctive
dmj
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
dmj.n
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
—
—
perfective
dmj
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
dmj
dmj , dmjw 5 , dmjy 5
imperfective
dmj , dmjy , dmjw 5
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
dmj , dmjj 6 , dmjy 6
dmj , dmjw 5
prospective
dmj , dmjtj 7
—
dmjtj 4 , dmjt 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 , feminine .s /.sj , dual .sn /.snj , plural .sn .
Only in the masculine singular.
Only in the masculine.
Only in the feminine.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dmj
Erman, Adolf , Grapow, Hermann (1931 ) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [1] , volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN , pages 453.6–455.3, 455.5–456.7
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN , page 313
James P[eter] Allen (2010 ) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs , 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN , pages 118, 156, 271, 274, 473 .
Černý, Jaroslav (1976 ) “ϯⲙⲉ ”, in Coptic Etymological Dictionary , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
^ Osing, Jürgen (1976 ) Die Nominalbildung des Ägyptischen , Mainz/Rhein: von Zabern, →ISBN , pages 415, 468, 754