wšn

See also: wsn

Egyptian

3-lit.

(transitive) to wring the neck of (birds) [since the Middle Kingdom]
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 144–146:
  
  zft.j n.k kꜣw m zj n sḏt wšn.n.j n.k ꜣpdw
  I will slaughter bulls for you as a burnt offering, having wrung the necks of birds for you.
(transitive, by extension) to sacrifice, to make an offering of (bread, etc.)

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
wšn	wšnw, wšn	wšnt	wšn	wšn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wšn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	wšn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wšn	wšn, wšnw⁵, wšny⁵
imperfective	wšn, wšny, wšnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wšn, wšnj⁶, wšny⁶	wšn, wšnw⁵
prospective	wšn, wšntj⁷	—	wšntj⁴, wšnt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of wšn

wšn

wšnw

wšnj

[Greco-Roman Period]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 374.6–374.7

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