wšr

See also: wsr, and WSR

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: wesher

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) dried out, to wither
2. (intransitive) to be(come) barren (unable to bear children)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wšr	wšrw, wšr	wšrt	wšr	wšr

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	wšr.n	—	—
perfective	wšr	wšr	wšr, wšrw5, wšry5
imperfective	wšr, wšry, wšrw5	wšr, wšrj6, wšry6	wšr, wšrw5
prospective	wšr, wšrtj7	wšrtj4, wšrt4
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.

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 240.