snšmšm

Egyptian

Etymology

From an (unattested) reduplication of nšm (“to cut”) prefixed with s- (causative prefix).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnɛʃɛmʃɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: seneshemshem

Verb

 caus. 5-lit.

1. (transitive) to sharpen, to file

Inflection

Conjugation of snšmšm (causative quinquiliteral / caus. 5-lit. / caus. 5rad.) — base stem: snšmšm

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural snšmšm snšmšmw, snšmšm snšmšmt snšmšm snšmšm ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 snšmšm ḥr snšmšm m snšmšm r snšmšm suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect snšmšm.n snšmšmw, snšmšm consecutive snšmšm.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative snšmšmt perfective3 snšmšm active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 snšmšm.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective snšmšm active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 snšmšmw, snšmšm, snšmšmy snšmšmw, snšmšm, snšmšmy potentialis1 snšmšm.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive snšmšm active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect snšmšm.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective snšmšm active + .tj1, .tw2 snšmšm snšmšm, snšmšmw5, snšmšmy5 imperfective snšmšm, snšmšmy, snšmšmw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 snšmšm, snšmšmj6, snšmšmy6 snšmšm, snšmšmw5 prospective snšmšm, snšmšmtj7 — snšmšmwtj1 4, snšmšmtj4, snšmšmt4 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 158.