gmgm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈkʼamkʼam//ˈkʼamkʼam//ˈkʼamkʼəm//ˈkʼamkʼəm/

Verb

 4-lit.

  1. (intransitive or transitive) to smash, to break
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 59–60:





      ḫtw ḥr gmgm tꜣ ḥr mnmn
      Trees were breaking, the ground was quaking.

Inflection

Conjugation of gmgm (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: gmgm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
gmgm
gmgmw, gmgm
gmgmt
gmgm
gmgm
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
gmgm
ḥr gmgm
m gmgm
r gmgm
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect gmgm.n
gmgmw, gmgm
consecutive gmgm.jn
active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative gmgmt
perfective3 gmgm
active + .tj1, .tw2
obligative1 gmgm.ḫr
active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective gmgm
active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 gmgmw, gmgm
gmgmw, gmgm
potentialis1 gmgm.kꜣ
active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive gmgm
active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect gmgm.n
active + .tj1, .tw2
perfective gmgm
active + .tj1, .tw2
gmgm
gmgm, gmgmw5, gmgmy5
imperfective gmgm, gmgmy, gmgmw5
active + .tj1, .tw2
gmgm, gmgmj6, gmgmy6
gmgm, gmgmw5
prospective gmgm, gmgmtj7
gmgmwtj1 4, gmgmtj4, gmgmt4

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.

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Coptic:
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲙⲕⲙ (kmkm)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲕⲉⲙⲕⲉⲙ (kemkem)

References