jꜣm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑm/
  • Conventional anglicization: iam

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to bind (cattle) for sacrifice [Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jꜣm jꜣmw, jꜣm jꜣmt jꜣm jꜣm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jꜣm ḥr jꜣm m jꜣm r jꜣm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect jꜣm.n jꜣmw, jꜣm consecutive jꜣm.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative jꜣmt perfective3 jꜣm active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 jꜣm.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective jꜣm active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 jꜣm jꜣmm potentialis1 jꜣm.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive jꜣm active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect jꜣm.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective jꜣm active + .tj1, .tw2 jꜣm jꜣm, jꜣmw5, jꜣmy5 imperfective jꜣm, jꜣmy, jꜣmw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 jꜣm, jꜣmj6, jꜣmy6 jꜣm, jꜣmw5 prospective jꜣm, jꜣmtj7 — jꜣmtj4, jꜣmt4 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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣm  

jꜣm	ꜣm

Derived terms

• jmꜣt

Verb

 3-lit.

1. Alternative form of jmꜣ (“to be(come) kindly, friendly, or gracious”)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣm  

jꜣm

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of jmꜣ (“a kind of tree”)

Verb

 2-lit.

1. Alternative form of ꜣm (“to burn”)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 31, 31.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9