sšmm

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ šmm (“to become hot”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛʃɛmɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: seshemem

Verb

 caus. 2ae gem.

1. (transitive) to heat, to warm

Inflection

Conjugation of sšmm (causative second geminate / caus. 2ae gem. / caus. II. gem.) — base stem: sšm, geminated stem: sšmm

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sšmm sšmm sšmmt sšmm sšmm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sšmm ḥr sšmm m sšmm r sšmm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sšmm.n sšmmw, sšmm consecutive sšmm.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sšmmt perfective3 sšmm active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sšmm.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sšmm active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sšmmw, sšmm, sšmmy sšmmw, sšmm, sšmmy potentialis1 sšmm.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sšmm active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sšmm.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sšmm active + .tj1, .tw2 — — imperfective sšmm, sšmmy, sšmmw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sšmm, sšmmj6, sšmmy6 sšmm, sšmmw5 prospective sšmm, sšmmtj7 — sšmmwtj1 4, sšmmtj4, sšmmt4 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 sšmm  

sšmm

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 208.