psg

See also: PSG

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive or transitive) to spit on (someone or something) (+ m: to spit on with (spittle, fire, etc.))
    1. (intransitive (with r, ḥr, or n) or transitive) to spit on (something sick) in order to heal it [since the Pyramid Texts]
    2. (transitive) to spit on (a person) out of contempt [Middle Kingdom literature]
    3. (transitive) to spit on (something) in order to harm it [New Kingdom to Late Period]
    4. (intransitive, with r or ḥr) to spit on (Apophis or a representation of Apophis)
  2. (transitive) to spit out (+ m ḫt: to contemptuously spit out behind (something))

Inflection
Conjugation of psg (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: psg, geminated stem: psgg
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
psg
 psgw, psg
 psgt
 psg
 psg
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
psg
 ḥr psg
 m psg
 r psg
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect psg.n
 psgw, psg
 consecutive psg.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative psgt
perfective3 psg
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative psg.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective psg
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 psg
 psgg
 potentialis psg.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive psg
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect psg.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective psg
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 psg
 psg, psgw5, psgy5
imperfective psg, psgy, psgw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 psg, psgj6, psgy6
 psg, psgw5
prospective psg, psgtj7
 — psgtj4, psgt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Since the 18th Dynasty, this word is found metathesized as pgs.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of psg  






psg psg psgꜣ psg pgs pgꜣs
[Pyramid Texts] [Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom]
in papyri

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 555.4–555.14
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 95
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