wzš

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛzɛʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wezesh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of people) to urinate
2. (transitive, of people or animals, with urine as object) to urinate
3. (transitive, medicine) to discharge or excrete (something diseased)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wzš	wzšw, wzš	wzšt	wzš	wzš

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	wzš.n	wzšw, wzš	consecutive	wzš.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	wzšt
perfective3	wzš	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	wzš.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	wzš	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	wzš	wzšš	potentialis1	wzš.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	wzš	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wzš.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	wzš	active + .tj1, .tw2	wzš	wzš, wzšw5, wzšy5
imperfective	wzš, wzšy, wzšw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	wzš, wzšj6, wzšy6	wzš, wzšw5
prospective	wzš, wzštj7	—	wzštj4, wzšt4
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 wzš  

wšš

Synonyms

• fgn

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 311.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 357.16–357.20