fgn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛɡɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: fegen

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of people) to defecate
2. (intransitive, of people) to urinate

   Synonym: wzš

   • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus line 12.16 (Eb 37):

     z ntj nj fgn.n.f

     a man who can’t urinate

Inflection

Conjugation of fgn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: fgn, geminated stem: fgnn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural fgn fgnw, fgn fgnt fgn fgn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 fgn ḥr fgn m fgn r fgn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect fgn.n consecutive fgn.jn terminative fgnt perfective3 fgn obligative1 fgn.ḫr imperfective fgn prospective3 fgn potentialis1 fgn.kꜣ subjunctive fgn verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect fgn.n — — perfective fgn fgn fgn, fgnw5, fgny5 imperfective fgn, fgny, fgnw5 fgn, fgnj6, fgny6 fgn, fgnw5 prospective fgn, fgntj7 fgntj4, fgnt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of fgn  

fgꜣ	fgn	fg
	in the sense ‘to urinate’	in the sense ‘to urinate’

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 580.6–580.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99
• van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242.