qs

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See also: Qs, q's, Q's, and qꜣs

English

Noun

qs

  1. plural of q

Usage notes

  • Opinions vary regarding the use of apostrophes when forming the plurals of letters of the alphabet. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

Anagrams

Bella Coola

Pronunciation

Verb

qs

  1. to pull

References

Egyptian

Etymology

Speculatively, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ḳas-; as with all attempts at reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, academic consensus is lacking. Compare with Tarifit iɣəss and Hausa ƙàshī.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /qʼis/, /qʼus/ → /qʼis/, /qʼus/ → /qʼes/, /qʼus/ → /qʼes/, /qʼøs/

Noun

qsqs

 m

  1. bone
    • c. 2323 BCE – 2291 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Teti — west wall of the antechamber, line 51–52, spell 373.1–373.4:[2]
      mdDihiihiT
      z      		 U39Tw<
      t
      t      		 i
      		>pwO43
      p      		 n
      k      		 tp
      k      		 in
      q      		 D32n
      k      		 qsT20T20T20k
      sAqD32n
      k      		 a
      t      		 ]]F44
      F44      		 F44
      k      		 wxxAAn
      k      		 tAirif
      F51      		 k
      ḏd-mdw jhj jhj ṯz ṯw ttj pw šzp n.k tp.k jnq n.k qsw.k sꜣq n.k w.k wḫꜣ n.k tꜣ jr j(w)f.k
      Recitation: Oho, oho! Pick yourself up, O Teti: take to you your head, draw together to you your bones, gather to you your s, shake out the earth from your flesh.

Inflection

Declension of qs (masculine)
singular qs
dual qswj
plural qsw

Descendants

  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲕⲁⲥ (kas)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲁⲥ (kas)

References

  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42
  2. ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University, PT 373.1–373.4 (Pyr. 654a–654d), T
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