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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 imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
wšn
ḥr wšn
m wšn
r wšn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
passive
contingent
aspect / mood
active
passive
perfect
wšn.n
wšnw , wšn
consecutive
wšn.jn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
terminative
wšnt
perfective 3
wšn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
obligative1
wšn.ḫr
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
imperfective
wšn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
prospective 3
wšn
wšnn
potentialis1
wšn.kꜣ
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
subjunctive
wšn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
wšn.n
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
—
—
perfective
wšn
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
wšn
wšn , wšnw 5 , wšny 5
imperfective
wšn , wšny , wšnw 5
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
wšn , wšnj 6 , wšny 6
wšn , wšnw 5
prospective
wšn , wšntj 7
—
wšntj 4 , wšnt 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.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wšn
wšn
wšn
wšnw
wšnj
[Greco-Roman Period]
[Greco-Roman Period]