sjhm

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ jhm (“to move slowly, to keep back”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛihɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: seihem

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

1. (transitive, hapax) to keep back, to detain

Inflection

Conjugation of sjhm (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sjhm

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sjhm sjhmw, sjhm sjhmt sjhm sjhm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sjhm ḥr sjhm m sjhm r sjhm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sjhm.n sjhmw, sjhm consecutive sjhm.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sjhmt perfective3 sjhm active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sjhm.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sjhm active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sjhmw, sjhm, sjhmy sjhmw, sjhm, sjhmy potentialis1 sjhm.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sjhm active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sjhm.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sjhm active + .tj1, .tw2 sjhm sjhm, sjhmw5, sjhmy5 imperfective sjhm, sjhmy, sjhmw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sjhm, sjhmj6, sjhmy6 sjhm, sjhmw5 prospective sjhm, sjhmtj7 — sjhmwtj1 4, sjhmtj4, sjhmt4 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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 384.