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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) bald
- (intransitive) to be(come) empty or devoid
- (intransitive) to be(come) full of gaps or holes (and thus destroyed)
- (transitive) to desolate, to lay waste (a place)
Inflection
Conjugation of wš (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: wš, geminated stem: wšš
| 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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wš
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wšw, wš
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wšt
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wš, j.wš
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wš, j.wš
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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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wš
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ḥr wš
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m wš
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r wš
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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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wš.n
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wšw, wš
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consecutive
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wš.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wšt
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| perfective3
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wš
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wš.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wš, j.wš1
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wš
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wšš
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potentialis1
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wš.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wš, j.wš1
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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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wš.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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wš
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wš
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wšš, wššj6, wš2, wšw2 5, wšy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.wš1, wš, wšy, wšw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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j.wš1, j.wšw1 5, wš, wšj6, wšy6
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wš, wšw5
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| prospective
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wš, wštj7
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—
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wštj4, wšt4
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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 wš
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 368.5–368.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 70
