smḫ
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]s- (causative prefix) + ḫm (“to not know”), apparently with metathesis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛmɛx/
- Conventional anglicization: semekh
Verb
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caus. 2-lit.
- (transitive) to forget, to no longer know (something) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (transitive) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)
- (catenative) to forget (to do something)
- (transitive) to neglect, to overlook, to pay no heed to (someone or something)
- (transitive) to not think about (something unpleasant: death, worries, etc.)
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of smḫ (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: smḫ
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
smḫt, smḫ |
smḫw, smḫ |
smḫt |
smḫ |
smḫ |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
smḫ |
ḥr smḫ |
m smḫ |
r smḫ |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | smḫ.n |
smḫw, smḫ |
consecutive | smḫ.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | smḫt | ||||
perfective3 | smḫ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | smḫ.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | smḫ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | smḫw, smḫ, smḫy |
smḫw, smḫ, smḫy |
potentialis1 | smḫ.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | smḫ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | smḫ.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | smḫ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
smḫ |
smḫ, smḫw5, smḫy5 |
imperfective | smḫ, smḫy, smḫw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
smḫ, smḫj6, smḫy6 |
smḫ, smḫw5 |
prospective | smḫ, smḫtj7 |
— | smḫwtj1 4, smḫtj4, smḫt4 | |
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Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of smḫ
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Demotic: sḫm
References
[edit]- “smḫ (lemma ID 135600)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 140.16–141.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 229
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 290.