wsḫ

See also: WSH

Egyptian

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic *wsɣ; compare Arabic وَسُعَ‎ (wasuʿa, “to be wide”), Arabic وَسِعَ‎ (wasiʿa, “to be wide”).^[1]

3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
wsḫ	wsḫw, wsḫ	wsḫt	wsḫ	wsḫ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
wsḫ	ḥr wsḫ	m wsḫ	r wsḫ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	wsḫ.n	—	—
perfective	wsḫ	wsḫ	wsḫ, wsḫw⁵, wsḫy⁵
imperfective	wsḫ, wsḫy, wsḫw⁵	wsḫ, wsḫj⁶, wsḫy⁶	wsḫ, wsḫw⁵
prospective	wsḫ, wsḫtj⁷	wsḫtj⁴, wsḫt⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wsḫ

wsḫ

Declension of wsḫ (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	wsḫ	wsḫt
dual	wsḫwj	wsḫtj
plural	wsḫw	wsḫwt¹, wsḫt²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Declension of wsḫ (imperfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	wsḫ, wsḫj, wsḫy	wsḫt
dual	wsḫwj, wsḫjwj, wsḫywj	wsḫtj
plural	wsḫw, wsḫjw, wsḫyw	wsḫwt¹, wsḫt²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

See under the verb above.

m

Declension of wsḫ (masculine)

See under the verb above.

m

Declension of wsḫ (masculine)

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83, 125, 135
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 112

↑ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 35

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