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
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

• “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