fgn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛɡɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: fegen

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of people) to defecate
2. (intransitive, of people) to urinate

   Synonym: wzš

   • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus line 12.16 (Eb 37):

     z ntj nj fgn.n.f

     a man who can’t urinate

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
fgn	fgnw, fgn	fgnt	fgn	fgn

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	fgn.n	consecutive	fgn.jn
terminative	fgnt
perfective3	fgn	obligative1	fgn.ḫr
imperfective	fgn
prospective3	fgn	potentialis1	fgn.kꜣ
subjunctive	fgn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	fgn.n	—	—
perfective	fgn	fgn	fgn, fgnw5, fgny5
imperfective	fgn, fgny, fgnw5	fgn, fgnj6, fgny6	fgn, fgnw5
prospective	fgn, fgntj7	fgntj4, fgnt4
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 fgn  

fgꜣ	fgn	fg
	in the sense ‘to urinate’	in the sense ‘to urinate’

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 580.6–580.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99
• van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242.