ssḫ

See also: ssh and SSH

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛsɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: sesekh

Verb

 caus. 2-lit.

1. Old Egyptian form of swsḫ (“to broaden, to widen”)

Inflection

Conjugation of ssḫ (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: ssḫ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ssḫt, ssḫ ssḫw, ssḫ ssḫt ssḫ ssḫ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ssḫ ḥr ssḫ m ssḫ r ssḫ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ssḫ.n ssḫw, ssḫ consecutive ssḫ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ssḫt perfective3 ssḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ssḫ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ssḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ssḫw, ssḫ, ssḫy ssḫw, ssḫ, ssḫy potentialis1 ssḫ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ssḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ssḫ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ssḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 ssḫ ssḫ, ssḫw5, ssḫy5 imperfective ssḫ, ssḫy, ssḫw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ssḫ, ssḫj6, ssḫy6 ssḫ, ssḫw5 prospective ssḫ, ssḫtj7 — ssḫwtj1 4, ssḫtj4, ssḫt4 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.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 157.