nmnm

Egyptian

Perhaps a reduplication of nmj (“to traverse”).

4-lit.

Conjugation of nmnm (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: nmnm

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
nmnm	nmnmw, nmnm	nmnmt	nmnm	nmnm

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
nmnm	ḥr nmnm	m nmnm	r nmnm

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	nmnm.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	nmnm	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nmnm	nmnm, nmnmw⁵, nmnmy⁵
imperfective	nmnm, nmnmy, nmnmw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nmnm, nmnmj⁶, nmnmy⁶	nmnm, nmnmw⁵
prospective	nmnm, nmnmtj⁷	—	nmnmwtj^{1 4}, nmnmtj⁴, nmnmt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nmnm

nmnm

[Old Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 267.11–267.14
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 133

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.