sšr

See also: SSR and šsr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 9 May 2022

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: sesher

Noun

 m

1. grain, corn

Inflection

Declension of sšr (masculine)

singular	sšr
dual	sšrwj
plural	sšrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sšr  

sšr	sšr	sšr	sšr

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to coat, to overlay (+ m, ḥr: to coat with, to spread with)
2. (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.

3. (transitive) to wet (one’s hand in a bowl of water)
4. (transitive, of a hand) to stroke (along something)
5. (transitive) to milk, to express milk from (a cow)
6. (transitive) to milk, to express (milk) from a cow
7. (transitive) to draw out (poison)
8. (transitive) to suckle (a cow’s udder) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sšr sšrw, sšr sšrt sšr sšr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sšr ḥr sšr m sšr r sšr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sšr.n sšrw, sšr consecutive sšr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sšrt perfective3 sšr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sšr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sšr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sšr sšrr potentialis1 sšr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sšr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sšr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sšr active + .tj1, .tw2 sšr sšr, sšrw5, sšry5 imperfective sšr, sšry, sšrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sšr, sšrj6, sšry6 sšr, sšrw5 prospective sšr, sšrtj7 — sšrtj4, sšrt4 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 sšr  

sẖr	sḫr

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], 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