ḥmsj

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈħimsit/ → /ˈħimsiʔ/ → /ˈħemsa/ → /ˈħemsə/

Verb
N42sA3

 4ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to sit down, to sit (+ ḥr: on, at; + m: in; + r: beside, at; + r and infinitive: in order to do (something)) [since the Pyramid Texts]
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.7–1.8:
      irN41msB4kHn
      a      		 Af
      a
      E186
      A1imiA2kAxfY1
      f      		 swAAN31
      jr ḥms.k ḥnꜥ ꜣfꜥ wnm.k ꜣḫf.f swꜣ(.w)
      If you sit with a glutton, you should eat when his burning appetite has passed.
  2. (intransitive) to dwell, to stay or live (+ m: in, at; + ḥnꜥ: with)
  3. (intransitive, with ḥr) to besiege (a place) [since the 18th Dynasty]
  4. (transitive) to occupy (a seat, etc.) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  5. (transitive) to seat (someone) [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection
Conjugation of ḥmsj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḥms
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥmst, ḥmsj
 ḥmsw, ḥmsyw, ḥms
 ḥmst, ḥmswt, ḥmsyt
 ḥms
 ḥms, ḥmsy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥms8
 ḥr ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj
 m ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj
 r ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḥms.n
 ḥmsw, ḥms, ḥmsy
 consecutive ḥms.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḥmst
perfective3 ḥms
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ḥms.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḥms, ḥmsy
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḥmsw, ḥms, ḥmsy
 ḥms
 potentialis1 ḥms.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḥms, ḥmsy
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḥms.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḥmsw1, ḥmsy, ḥms
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥms
 ḥmsy, ḥms
imperfective ḥms, ḥmsy, ḥmsw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥms, ḥmsj6, ḥmsy6
 ḥms, ḥmsw5
prospective ḥmsw1, ḥmsy, ḥms, ḥmstj7
 — ḥmswtj1 4, ḥmstj4, ḥmst4
  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.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥmsj  
N42sXrd
N42
z		 Xrd
N42msA3
N42
z		 A7
HN42sA7
N41msB4
ḥmsj ḥmsj ḥmsj ḥmsj ḥmsj ḥmsj
[1]

Descendants
  • Demotic: ḥms
    • Akhmimic Coptic: ϩⲙⲉⲥⲧ (hmest), ϩⲙⲉⲥ (hmes), ϩⲙⲁⲥⲧ (hmast), ϩⲙⲟⲥⲧ (hmost)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲙⲥⲓ (hemsi)
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲙⲟⲟⲥ (hmoos), ϩⲙⲁⲥ (hmas), ϩⲙⲁⲁⲥ (hmaas), ϩⲉⲙⲁⲥ (hemas)
    • Lycopolitan Coptic: ϩⲙⲉⲥⲧ (hmest), ϩⲙⲉⲥ (hmes), ϩⲙⲁⲥⲧ (hmast), ϩⲙⲁⲥ (hmas), ϩⲙⲁⲁⲥ (hmaas)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲙⲟⲟⲥ (hmoos)

See also

References
  • “ḥmsi̯ (lemma ID 105780)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 96.13–98.22
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 170
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 157, 207, 250, 255, 271.
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 55
  1. Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2015) Westcar Papyrus, page 8
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