wnm

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈwaːnam/ → /ˈwaːnam/ → /ˈwoːnəm/

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to eat
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.7–1.8:

      jr ḥms.k ḥnꜥ ꜣfꜥ wn(m).k ꜣḫf.f swꜣ(.w)
      If you sit with a glutton, you should eat when his burning appetite has passed.

Inflection
Conjugation of wnm (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wnm, geminated stem: wnmm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wnm
 wnmw, wnm
 wnmt
 wnm
 wnm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wnm
 ḥr wnm
 m wnm
 r wnm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect wnm.n
 wnmw, wnm
 consecutive wnm.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative wnmt
perfective3 wnm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative wnm.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective wnm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 wnm
 wnmm
 potentialis wnm.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive wnm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect wnm.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective wnm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 wnm
 wnm, wnmw5, wnmy5
imperfective wnm, wnmy, wnmw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 wnm, wnmj6, wnmy6
 wnm, wnmw5
prospective wnm, wnmtj7
 — wnmtj4, wnmt4
  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.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnm  
wn wnm

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 183 page 175, 183.
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