sšr

See also: SSR, and šsr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 9 May 2022

m

Declension of sšr (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sšr

sšr

3-lit.

(transitive) to coat, to overlay (+ m, ḥr: to coat with, to spread with)
(transitive) to gild or gold plate (+ m: with (gold))
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 62–66:
  
  n(j)-sw mꜥbꜣ mḥ ḫbzwt.f wr s(j) r mḥ snwj ḥꜥw.f sḫr.w m nbw jnḥwj.fj m ḫsbd mꜣꜥ ꜥrq sw r ḫnt
  He measured (literally, “belonged to”) thirty cubits, his beard, it was greater than two cubits, his body was plated with gold, his eyebrows were true lapis lazuli, and he was arched forward.
(transitive) to wet (one’s hand in a bowl of water)
(transitive, of a hand) to stroke (along something)
(transitive) to milk, to express milk from (a cow)
(transitive) to milk, to express (milk) from a cow
(transitive) to draw out (poison)
(transitive) to suckle (a cow’s udder) [Greco-Roman Period]

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sšr	sšrw, sšr	sšrt	sšr	sšr

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sšr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sšr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sšr	sšr, sšrw⁵, sšry⁵
imperfective	sšr, sšry, sšrw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sšr, sšrj⁶, sšry⁶	sšr, sšrw⁵
prospective	sšr, sšrtj⁷	—	sšrtj⁴, sšrt⁴
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.