jmḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: imeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. to sip [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jmḥ jmḥw, jmḥ jmḥt jmḥ jmḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jmḥ ḥr jmḥ m jmḥ r jmḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect jmḥ.n jmḥw, jmḥ consecutive jmḥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative jmḥt perfective3 jmḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 jmḥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective jmḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 jmḥ jmḥḥ potentialis1 jmḥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive jmḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect jmḥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective jmḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 jmḥ jmḥ, jmḥw5, jmḥy5 imperfective jmḥ, jmḥy, jmḥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 jmḥ, jmḥj6, jmḥy6 jmḥ, jmḥw5 prospective jmḥ, jmḥtj7 — jmḥtj4, jmḥt4 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 jmḥ  

jmḥ

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 88