rmrm

Egyptian

Etymology

Reduplication of *rm.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛmrɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: remrem

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive, rare) to chastise, to beat (with a stick) [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural rmrm rmrmw, rmrm rmrmt rmrm rmrm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 rmrm ḥr rmrm m rmrm r rmrm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect rmrm.n rmrmw, rmrm consecutive rmrm.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative rmrmt perfective3 rmrm active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 rmrm.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective rmrm active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 rmrmw, rmrm rmrmw, rmrm potentialis1 rmrm.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive rmrm active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect rmrm.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective rmrm active + .tj1, .tw2 rmrm rmrm, rmrmw5, rmrmy5 imperfective rmrm, rmrmy, rmrmw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 rmrm, rmrmj6, rmrmy6 rmrm, rmrmw5 prospective rmrm, rmrmtj7 — rmrmwtj1 4, rmrmtj4, rmrmt4 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.

References

• “rmrm (lemma ID 94470)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 421.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149