dmj

Egyptian

FWOTD – 23 June 2023

m

mooring; harbor
- c. 1859 BCE – 1800 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B2 (pAmherst 2 and pBerlin 3025) lines 101–103:
  
  jr sqdd ẖr.f nj sꜣḥ.n.f tꜣ nj mjn.n dpwt.f r dmj.s
  As for him who sails with it, he cannot set foot on land, and his boat cannot moor at its harbor.
town; village; quarter
- c. 1944 BCE, (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184), lines 11–12:
  
  nj sḏr z ḥqr.w r dmj.j
  No one went to bed hungry in my district.
(Greco-Roman) dry land, ground not covered by water

Declension of dmj (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dmj

dmj

3-lit.

(transitive) to touch
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 136–138:
  
  wn.k(w) r.f dmꜣ.kw ḥr ẖt.j dmj.n.j zꜣtw m bꜣḥ.f
  At that I was stretched out on my belly, having touched the ground before him,
(transitive) to reach (a place)
(transitive) to join with, to attach oneself to (someone) [New Kingdom]
(transitive) to take part in (jubilation) [New Kingdom]
(transitive) to salve (+ n: someone) with (a salve) [19th Dynasty]

Conjugation of dmj (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: dmj

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
dmj	dmjw, dmj	dmjt	dmj	dmj

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
dmj	ḥr dmj	m dmj	r dmj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	dmj.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	dmj	active + .tj¹, .tw²	dmj	dmj, dmjw⁵, dmjy⁵
imperfective	dmj, dmjy, dmjw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	dmj, dmjj⁶, dmjy⁶	dmj, dmjw⁵
prospective	dmj, dmjtj⁷	—	dmjtj⁴, dmjt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dmj

dmj

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 453.6–455.3, 455.5–456.7
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 313
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 118, 156, 271, 274, 473.
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Osing, Jürgen (1976) Die Nominalbildung des Ägyptischen, Mainz/Rhein: von Zabern, →ISBN, pages 415, 468, 754

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