nmꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛmɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: nema

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) biased, to be(come) partial

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nmꜥ	nmꜥw, nmꜥ	nmꜥt	nmꜥ	nmꜥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
nmꜥ	ḥr nmꜥ	m nmꜥ	r nmꜥ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nmꜥ.n	consecutive	nmꜥ.jn
terminative	nmꜥt
perfective3	nmꜥ	obligative1	nmꜥ.ḫr
imperfective	nmꜥ
prospective3	nmꜥ	potentialis1	nmꜥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	nmꜥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nmꜥ.n	—	—
perfective	nmꜥ	nmꜥ	nmꜥ, nmꜥw5, nmꜥy5
imperfective	nmꜥ, nmꜥy, nmꜥw5	nmꜥ, nmꜥj6, nmꜥy6	nmꜥ, nmꜥw5
prospective	nmꜥ, nmꜥtj7	nmꜥtj4, nmꜥt4
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.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 239.