wnm

Egyptian

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

Verb
wn
n		 mA2

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to eat (something as food)
  2. (intransitive) to eat in general (+ m: to eat of, to feed on)
    • 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.
  3. (intransitive) to take solid medicine
  4. (intransitive) to have or consume usufruct of a property [since the Old Kingdom]
  5. (transitive) to take in, to consume (something abstract: magic, power, hunger, etc.)
  6. (intransitive with m or transitive, of fire) to consume (something), to burn (something) up
  7. (intransitive, of sickness) to eat away at parts of the body

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
 obligative1 wnm.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective wnm
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 wnm
 wnmm
 potentialis1 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, dual .sn/.snj, 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  
M42X7
X7
wn
n		 X7
X7
D82
M42A2
X7
X7		 A2
imiA2
wn
n		 mA2
imi
Y1
imimA2
imimWA2
wnm wnm wnm wnm wnm wnm wnm wnm wnmw
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [18th Dynasty] [19th and 20th Dynasty]
rare rare in hieratic

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Demotic: wnm

Noun
imimA2

 m

  1. eating, consumption of food
  2. food
  3. appetite
  4. taking or ingestion of medicine

See also

References
  • “wnm (lemma ID 46710)”, 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
  • “wnm (lemma ID 46720)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 320.1–321.14
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 62
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 175, 184.
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