# wsḫ
## Egyptian
### Pronunciation

* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /wɛsɛx/
** Conventional anglicization: wesekh

### Etymology 1

Sometimes hypothesized to be from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *wsɣ; compare Arabic وَسُعَ (wasuʕa), وَسِعَ (wasiʕa, “to be wide”). Also compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵙⵙⵉⵖ (ssiɣ, “to pass, give, extend, expand”).

#### Verb

3-lit.
* (intransitive) to be(come) broad, to be(come) wide
** c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2: wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdwwThe tent is open to the quiet man; the place of the man calm in speech is broad.
* (intransitive, of movements) to be(come) extensive, wide-ranging
* (intransitive) to be(come) abundant, extensive, rich (+ m: in)
* (intransitive, of names) to be(come) renowned, widely known, famous
* (intransitive, impersonal, with n) to have space for (someone)

##### Alternative forms

| wsḫ | wsḫ | wsḫ | wsḫ | wsḫ |
| [Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
| abbreviation | abbreviation |

##### Derived terms

* swsḫ
* sḫw

##### Descendants

* Demotic: wsh̭, wsš
** Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱϣⲥ̄ (ouōšs̄), ⲟⲩⲱⲥⳉ (ouōsx)

#### Adjective

* perfective active participle of wsḫ; broad, wide
* imperfective active participle of wsḫ; broad, wide

##### Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

#### Noun

m
* breadth, width

##### Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

#### Noun

m
* broad collar or necklace [since the Middle Kingdom]

##### Alternative forms

| wsḫ | wsḫ | wsḫ | wsḫ |
| | | abbreviation | abbreviation |

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

m
* barge

##### Alternative forms

wsḫ :

### References

* “wsḫ (lemma ID 49800)”, “wsḫ (lemma ID 49820)”, and “wsḫ (lemma ID 49840)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
* Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 364.11–365.12, 365.16–366.2
* Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 69
* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 83, 125, 135.
* Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 112
* ↑ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 35
* ↑ Alternatively, taking as imperative (j)m: ‘…the place of the calm man is broad. Don’t speak!’ The first clause can also be interpreted in two different ways. If represents the preposition n, then ‘The tent is open to the quiet man’; but if it represents the genitival adjective n(j), then ‘The tent of the quiet man is open’. The first interpretation is more appealing semantically, but the second is favored by parallelism with the following clause.