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3-lit.
- (transitive) to eat (something as food)
- (intransitive) to eat in general (+ m: to eat of, to feed on)
- (intransitive) to take solid medicine
- (intransitive) to have or consume usufruct of a property [since the Old Kingdom]
- (transitive) to take in, to consume (something abstract: magic, power, hunger, etc.)
- (intransitive with m or transitive, of fire) to consume (something), to burn (something) up
- (intransitive, of sickness) to eat away at parts of the body
Conjugation of wnm (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wnm, geminated stem: wnmm
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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wnm
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wnmw, wnm
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wnmt
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wnm
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wnm
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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wnm
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ḥr wnm
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m wnm
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r wnm
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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wnm.n
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wnmw, wnm
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consecutive
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wnm.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wnmt
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| perfective3
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wnm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wnm.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wnm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wnm
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wnmm
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potentialis1
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wnm.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wnm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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wnm.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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wnm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wnm
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wnm, wnmw5, wnmy5
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| imperfective
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wnm, wnmy, wnmw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wnm, wnmj6, wnmy6
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wnm, wnmw5
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| prospective
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wnm, wnmtj7
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—
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wnmtj4, wnmt4
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- 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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnm
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wnm
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wnm
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wnm
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wnm
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wnm
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wnm
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wnm
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wnmw
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[Old Kingdom]
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[Old Kingdom]
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[Old Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[18th Dynasty]
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[19th and 20th Dynasty]
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rare
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rare
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in hieratic
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m
- eating, consumption of food
- food
- appetite
- taking or ingestion of medicine
- “wnm (lemma ID 46710)” and “wnm (lemma ID 46720)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], 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.
