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
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.

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