Translingual
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Egyptian
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Pronunciation
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2-lit.
( transitive ) to predict , to foretell
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE ,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 30–32:
sr .sn ḏꜥ nj jjt nšnj nj ḫprt.fThey could predict a stormwind before it came or a thunderstorm before it happened. Inflection
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Conjugation of sr (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: sr , geminated stem: srr
infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive1
singular
plural
sr
srw , sr
srt
sr , j.sr
sr , j.sr
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2 sr
ḥr sr
m sr
r sr
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
passive
contingent
aspect / mood
active
passive
perfect
sr.n
srw , sr
consecutive
sr.jn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 terminative
srt perfective 3
sr
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
obligative1
sr.ḫr
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 imperfective
sr , j.sr 1
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 prospective 3
sr
srr
potentialis1
sr.kꜣ
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 subjunctive
sr , j.sr 1
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
sr.n
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
—
—
perfective
sr
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
sr
srr , srrj 6 , sr 2 , srw 2 5 , sry 2 5 imperfective
j.sr 1 , sr , sry , srw 5
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
j.sr 1 , j.srw 1 5 , sr , srj 6 , sry 6
sr , srw 5 prospective
sr , srtj 7
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srtj 4 , srt 4
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.
m
official , magistrate Inflection
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Declension of sr (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sr
Presumably based on the descendants, Allen reads this word with an unwritten j as srj .
Descendants
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Demotic: srj Coptic: ⲥⲓⲟⲩⲣ ( siour , “ eunuch ” )
m
hair of an animal or woman Descendants
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Romanization
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sr
Alternative transliteration of zr .References
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James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs , 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN , page 180 .
Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN , page 168
Erman, Adolf ; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [1] , volume IV, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN , pages 189–191
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ʂ/
sr (upper case Sr )
A letter of the Inupiaq alphabet , written in the Latin script . See also
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( North Slope & Northwest Arctic ) ( Latin-script letters) A a , Ch ch , G g , Ġ ġ , H h , I i , K k , L l , Ḷ ḷ , Ł ł , Ł̣ ł̣ , M m , N n , Ñ ñ , Ŋ ŋ , P p , Q q , R r , S s , Sr sr , T t , U u , V v , Y y (’ )
( Seward Peninsula ) ( Latin-script letters) A a , B b (Ch ch , Ə ə ), G g , Ġ ġ , H h , I i , K k , L l , Ł ł , M m , N n , Ŋ ŋ , P p , Q q , R r , S s , Sr sr , T t , U u , V v , W w , Y y , Z z , Zr zr , '
( Uummarmiutun ) ( Latin-script letters) A a , Ch ch , F f , G g , H h , Dj dj , I i , K k , L l , Ł ł , M m , N n , Ñ ñ , Ng ng , P p , Q q , R r , R̂ r̂ , T t , U u , V v , Y y