ssn

See also: SSN

Egyptian

s- (causative prefix) +‎ sn (“to smell, to kiss”).

caus. 2-lit.

(transitive or intransitive, of a person or a nose) to breathe [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive) to smell (a scent) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- c. 1800 BCE, Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (UC 32057), page 2, line 7:
  
  jw.j ḥr ssnt ꜣšr
  I smell roasting.

By the Late Period, snsn (“to smell, to inhale”) began to replace this word.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ssnt, ssn	ssnw, ssn	ssnt	ssn	ssn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ssn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ssn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ssn	ssn, ssnw⁵, ssny⁵
imperfective	ssn, ssny, ssnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ssn, ssnj⁶, ssny⁶	ssn, ssnw⁵
prospective	ssn, ssntj⁷	—	ssnwtj^{1 4}, ssntj⁴, ssnt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of ssn

ssn

ssnj

ssn

[since the Pyramid Texts;
common since the Middle Kingdom]

[since the New Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 277.9–277.16
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 245

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