wzš

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛzɛʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wezesh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of people) to urinate
2. (transitive, of people or animals, with urine as object) to urinate
3. (transitive, medicine) to discharge or excrete (something diseased)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wzš wzšw, wzš wzšt wzš wzš ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wzš ḥr wzš m wzš r wzš suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wzš.n wzšw, wzš consecutive wzš.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wzšt perfective3 wzš active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wzš.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wzš active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wzš wzšš potentialis1 wzš.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wzš active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wzš.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wzš active + .tj1, .tw2 wzš wzš, wzšw5, wzšy5 imperfective wzš, wzšy, wzšw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wzš, wzšj6, wzšy6 wzš, wzšw5 prospective wzš, wzštj7 — wzštj4, wzšt4 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 wzš  

wšš

Synonyms

• fgn

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 311.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 357.16–357.20