ssḫ

ssḫ

See also: ssh and SSH

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛsɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: sesekh

Verb

 caus. 2-lit.

1. Old Egyptian form of swsḫ (“to broaden, to widen”)

Inflection

Conjugation of ssḫ (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: ssḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ssḫt, ssḫ	ssḫw, ssḫ	ssḫt	ssḫ	ssḫ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ssḫ.n	ssḫw, ssḫ	consecutive	ssḫ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ssḫt
perfective3	ssḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative	ssḫ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ssḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ssḫw, ssḫ, ssḫy	ssḫw, ssḫ, ssḫy	potentialis	ssḫ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ssḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ssḫ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ssḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	ssḫ	ssḫ, ssḫw5, ssḫy5
imperfective	ssḫ, ssḫy, ssḫw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ssḫ, ssḫj6, ssḫy6	ssḫ, ssḫw5
prospective	ssḫ, ssḫtj7	—	ssḫwtj1 4, ssḫtj4, ssḫt4
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. 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 157.