kꜣmn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑmɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: kamen

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of the eyes) To be blind.
2. (transitive, Late Egyptian) To blind (someone).
3. (intransitive, Late Egyptian) Used in the phrase , meaning blind in one eye.
4. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of the earth during a storm) To be dark.

Inflection

Conjugation of kꜣmn (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: kꜣmn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural kꜣmn kꜣmnw, kꜣmn kꜣmnt kꜣmn kꜣmn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 kꜣmn ḥr kꜣmn m kꜣmn r kꜣmn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect kꜣmn.n kꜣmnw, kꜣmn consecutive kꜣmn.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative kꜣmnt perfective3 kꜣmn active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 kꜣmn.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective kꜣmn active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 kꜣmnw, kꜣmn kꜣmnw, kꜣmn potentialis1 kꜣmn.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive kꜣmn active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect kꜣmn.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective kꜣmn active + .tj1, .tw2 kꜣmn kꜣmn, kꜣmnw5, kꜣmny5 imperfective kꜣmn, kꜣmny, kꜣmnw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 kꜣmn, kꜣmnj6, kꜣmny6 kꜣmn, kꜣmnw5 prospective kꜣmn, kꜣmntj7 — kꜣmnwtj1 4, kꜣmntj4, kꜣmnt4 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 kꜣmn  

kꜣmn

Descendants

• Old Coptic: ϭⲱⲛⲙ̄ (cōnm̄, “to be blinded”)

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian) blind man

Inflection

Declension of kꜣmn (masculine)

singular	kꜣmn
dual	kꜣmnwj
plural	kꜣmnw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 107.1–107.5
• Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎^[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 821a