fgn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
f
g
n
A81

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive, of people) to defecate
  2. (intransitive, of people) to urinate
    Synonym: wzš
    • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus line 12.16 (Eb 37):
      z&A1&Z1 n
      t y      		 D35
      f      		 gn
      D53      		 n
      f
      z ntj nj fgn.n.f
      a man who can’t urinate

Inflection
Conjugation of fgn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: fgn, geminated stem: fgnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
fgn
 fgnw, fgn
 fgnt
 fgn
 fgn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
fgn
 ḥr fgn
 m fgn
 r fgn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect fgn.n
 consecutive fgn.jn
terminative fgnt
perfective3 fgn
 obligative1 fgn.ḫr
imperfective fgn
prospective3 fgn
 potentialis1 fgn.kꜣ
subjunctive fgn
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect fgn.n
 — —
perfective fgn
 fgn
 fgn, fgnw5, fgny5
imperfective fgn, fgny, fgnw5
 fgn, fgnj6, fgny6
 fgn, fgnw5
prospective fgn, fgntj7
 fgntj4, fgnt4
  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.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of fgn  
f
g		 A
A81
f
g		 n
D53
f
g		 D53
fgꜣ fgn fg
in the sense ‘to urinate’ in the sense ‘to urinate’

References
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 580.6–580.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99
  • van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242.
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