šmm

Egyptian

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Arabic حَمِيم‎ (ḥamīm, “hot”), Hebrew חַם‎ (ḥam, “hot”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

 2ae gem.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) hot
  2. (intransitive) to be(come) feverish

Inflection
Conjugation of šmm (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: šm, geminated stem: šmm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
šmm8
 šmm
 šmmt
 šmm, šm
 šmm, šm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
šmm, šm
 ḥr šmm
 m šmm
 r šmm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect šmm.n, šm.n
 consecutive šm.jn
terminative šmmt
perfective3 šm
 obligative šmm.ḫr
imperfective šmm
prospective3 šmm
 potentialis šm.kꜣ
subjunctive šm
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect šm.n
 — —
perfective šm
 šm
 šm, šmw5, šmy5
imperfective šmm, šmmy, šmmw5
 šmm, šmmj6, šmmy6
 šmm, šmmw5
prospective šm, šmtj7
 šmmtj4, šmmt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. šm before suffix pronouns.

Derived terms

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 468.1–468.17
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 34
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