wš

See also: ws, WS, Ws, ws., w's, .ws, and W's

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wesh

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) bald
2. (intransitive) to be(come) empty or devoid
3. (intransitive) to be(come) full of gaps or holes (and thus destroyed)
4. (transitive) to desolate, to lay waste (a place)

Inflection

Conjugation of wš (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: wš, geminated stem: wšš

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wš wšw, wš wšt wš, j.wš wš, j.wš ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wš ḥr wš m wš r wš suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wš.n wšw, wš consecutive wš.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wšt perfective3 wš active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wš.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wš, j.wš1 active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wš wšš potentialis1 wš.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wš, j.wš1 active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wš.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wš active + .tj1, .tw2 wš wšš, wššj6, wš2, wšw2 5, wšy2 5 imperfective j.wš1, wš, wšy, wšw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 j.wš1, j.wšw1 5, wš, wšj6, wšy6 wš, wšw5 prospective wš, wštj7 — wštj4, wšt4 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 wš  

wš	wš
	abbreviation

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], 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