gmḥ

See also: gmh

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to observe
    • c. 1295 BCE – 1186 BCE, The Admonitions of Ipuwer (pLeiden I 344 Recto) line 8.5:[1]





      m.tn jwtt {m} pdsw.s m nbt ꜣtp gmḥt ḥr.s m mw m nbt ꜥnḫ
      Look, she who had no box is the owner of a chest; she who observed her face in the water is the owner of a mirror.

Inflection
Conjugation of gmḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: gmḥ, geminated stem: gmḥḥ
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
gmḥ
 gmḥw, gmḥ
 gmḥt
 gmḥ
 gmḥ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
gmḥ
 ḥr gmḥ
 m gmḥ
 r gmḥ
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect gmḥ.n
 gmḥw, gmḥ
 consecutive gmḥ.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative gmḥt
perfective3 gmḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 gmḥ.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective gmḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 gmḥ
 gmḥḥ
 potentialis1 gmḥ.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive gmḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect gmḥ.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective gmḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 gmḥ
 gmḥ, gmḥw5, gmḥy5
imperfective gmḥ, gmḥy, gmḥw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 gmḥ, gmḥj6, gmḥy6
 gmḥ, gmḥw5
prospective gmḥ, gmḥtj7
 — gmḥtj4, gmḥt4
  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 345.
  1. Gardiner, Alan (1909) The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 344 Recto), page 62 and plate 8
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