sšr

See also: SSR and šsr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 9 May 2022

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: sesher

Noun

 m

1. grain, corn

Inflection

Declension of sšr (masculine)

singular	sšr
dual	sšrwj
plural	sšrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sšr  

sšr	sšr	sšr	sšr

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to coat, to overlay (+ m, ḥr: to coat with, to spread with)
2. (transitive) to gild or gold plate (+ m: with (gold))
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 62–66:

     n(j)-sw mꜥbꜣ mḥ ḫbzwt.f wr s(j) r mḥ snwj ḥꜥw.f sḫr.w m nbw jnḥwj.fj m ḫsbd mꜣꜥ ꜥrq sw r ḫnt

     He measured (literally, “belonged to”) thirty cubits, his beard, it was greater than two cubits, his body was plated with gold, his eyebrows were true lapis lazuli, and he was arched forward.

3. (transitive) to wet (one’s hand in a bowl of water)
4. (transitive, of a hand) to stroke (along something)
5. (transitive) to milk, to express milk from (a cow)
6. (transitive) to milk, to express (milk) from a cow
7. (transitive) to draw out (poison)
8. (transitive) to suckle (a cow’s udder) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sšr	sšrw, sšr	sšrt	sšr	sšr

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sšr.n	sšrw, sšr	consecutive	sšr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sšrt
perfective3	sšr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sšr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sšr	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sšr	sšrr	potentialis1	sšr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sšr	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sšr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sšr	active + .tj1, .tw2	sšr	sšr, sšrw5, sšry5
imperfective	sšr, sšry, sšrw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sšr, sšrj6, sšry6	sšr, sšrw5
prospective	sšr, sšrtj7	—	sšrtj4, sšrt4
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 sšr  

sẖr	sḫr

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 294.8–295.5, 541.11–542.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 244, 248