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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (transitive) to wring the neck of (birds)
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 144–146:
- zft.j n.k kꜣw m zj n sḏt wšn.n.j n.k ꜣpdw
- I will slaughter bulls for you as a burnt offering, having wrung the necks of birds for you.
- (transitive, by extension) to sacrifice, to make an offering of (bread, etc.)
Inflection
Conjugation of wšn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wšn, geminated stem: wšnn
| 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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wšn
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wšnw, wšn
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wšnt
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wšn
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wšn
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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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wšn
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ḥr wšn
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m wšn
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r wšn
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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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wšn.n
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wšnw, wšn
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consecutive
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wšn.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wšnt
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| perfective3
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wšn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wšn.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wšn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wšn
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wšnn
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potentialis1
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wšn.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wšn
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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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wšn.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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wšn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wšn
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wšn, wšnw5, wšny5
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| imperfective
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wšn, wšny, wšnw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wšn, wšnj6, wšny6
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wšn, wšnw5
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| prospective
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wšn, wšntj7
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—
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wšntj4, wšnt4
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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 wšn
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