wšr

See also: wsr and WSR

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

3-lit.

(intransitive) to be(come) dried out, to wither
(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	aspect / mood	active
perfect	wšr.n	consecutive	wšr.jn
terminative	wšrt	consecutive	wšr.jn
perfective³	wšr	obligative¹	wšr.ḫr
imperfective	wšr	obligative¹	wšr.ḫr
prospective³	wšr	potentialis¹	wšr.kꜣ
subjunctive	wšr	potentialis¹	wšr.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	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

¹ Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
² Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
³ 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.
⁴ Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. ⁵ Only in the masculine singular.
⁶ Only in the masculine.
⁷ 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.