wꜣsj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑsi/
  • Conventional anglicization: wasi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) ruined, to fall to ruin

Inflection

Conjugation of wꜣsj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: wꜣs, geminated stem: wꜣss

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wꜣs wꜣsw, wꜣsyw, wꜣs wꜣst, wꜣswt, wꜣsyt wꜣs wꜣs, wꜣsy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wꜣs8 ḥr wꜣs m wꜣs r wꜣs suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect wꜣs.n consecutive wꜣs.jn terminative wꜣst perfective3 wꜣs obligative1 wꜣs.ḫr imperfective wꜣs, wꜣsy prospective3 wꜣsw, wꜣs, wꜣsy potentialis1 wꜣs.kꜣ subjunctive wꜣs, wꜣsy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect wꜣs.n — — perfective wꜣsw1, wꜣsy, wꜣs wꜣs wꜣsy, wꜣs imperfective wꜣss, wꜣssy, wꜣssw5 wꜣss, wꜣssj6, wꜣssy6 wꜣss, wꜣssw5 prospective wꜣsw1, wꜣsy, wꜣs, wꜣstj7 wꜣswtj1 4, wꜣstj4, wꜣst4 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

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 207.