smḫ

See also: smh, SMH, smH, and smḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḫm (“to not know”), apparently with metathesis.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛmɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: semekh

Verb

 caus. 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to forget, to no longer know (something) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (transitive) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)
3. (catenative) to forget (to do something)
4. (transitive) to neglect, to overlook, to pay no heed to (someone or something)
5. (transitive) to not think about (something unpleasant: death, worries, etc.)

Inflection

Conjugation of smḫ (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: smḫ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural smḫt, smḫ smḫw, smḫ smḫt smḫ smḫ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 smḫ ḥr smḫ m smḫ r smḫ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect smḫ.n smḫw, smḫ consecutive smḫ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative smḫt perfective3 smḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 smḫ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective smḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 smḫw, smḫ, smḫy smḫw, smḫ, smḫy potentialis1 smḫ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive smḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect smḫ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective smḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 smḫ smḫ, smḫw5, smḫy5 imperfective smḫ, smḫy, smḫw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 smḫ, smḫj6, smḫy6 smḫ, smḫw5 prospective smḫ, smḫtj7 — smḫwtj1 4, smḫtj4, smḫt4 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 smḫ  

smḫ	smḫ	sḫm	sḫm	sšm
	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Synonyms

• mhj

Antonyms

• sḫꜣj

Descendants

• Demotic: sḫm

References

• “smḫ (lemma ID 135600)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 140.16–141.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 229
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 290.