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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- grain, corn
Inflection
Declension of sšr (masculine)
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sšr
Verb
3-lit.
- (transitive) to coat, to overlay (+ m, ḥr: to coat with, to spread with)
- (transitive) to gild or gold plate (+ m: with (gold))
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 62–66:
- n(j)-sw mꜥbꜣ mḥ ḫbzwt.f wr s(j) r mḥ snwj ḥꜥw.f sḫr.w m nbw jnḥwj.fj m ḫsbd mꜣꜥ ꜥrq sw r ḫnt
- He measured (literally, “belonged to”) thirty cubits, his beard, it was greater than two cubits, his body was plated with gold, his eyebrows were true lapis lazuli, and he was arched forward.
- (transitive) to wet (one’s hand in a bowl of water)
- (transitive, of a hand) to stroke (along something)
- (transitive) to milk, to express milk from (a cow)
- (transitive) to milk, to express (milk) from a cow
- (transitive) to draw out (poison)
- (transitive) to suckle (a cow’s udder)
Inflection
Conjugation of sšr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sšr, geminated stem: sšrr
| infinitival forms
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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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sšr
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sšrw, sšr
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sšrt
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sšr
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sšr
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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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sšr
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ḥr sšr
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m sšr
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r sšr
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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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sšr.n
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sšrw, sšr
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consecutive
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sšr.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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sšrt
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| perfective3
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sšr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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sšr.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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sšr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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sšr
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sšrr
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potentialis1
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sšr.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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sšr
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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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sšr.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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sšr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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sšr
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sšr, sšrw5, sšry5
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| imperfective
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sšr, sšry, sšrw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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sšr, sšrj6, sšry6
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sšr, sšrw5
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| prospective
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sšr, sšrtj7
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—
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sšrtj4, sšrt4
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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 forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sšr
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 294.8–295.5, 541.11–542.1
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 244, 248
