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⁠⁠⁠

(intransitive) to go, to walk, to travel

Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲟϣⲓ (moši)
Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲟϣⲉ (mooše)

Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 96
Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic‎^[1], third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 59
Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago‎^[2], volume M (10.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 244

Wooden figures found in the tomb of Mesehti:

of the 11th Dynasty

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛʃɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: mesha

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mšꜥ

jmj-r-mšꜥ (“general, boss of a workgang”)
jmj-r-mšꜥ-wr (“field marshal”)
jdnw-n-mšꜥ (“colonel”)
ꜥnḫ-n-mšꜥ (“infantryman”)
mšꜥ qt (“scapula”)

Demotic: mšꜥ
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲏϣ (mēš)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲏϣⲉ (mēēše)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲏϣⲓ (mēēši), ⲙⲉϣⲓ (meši)
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙⲏⲏϣⲉ (mēēše), ⲙⲏϣⲉ (mēše)
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲓⲉⲓϣⲉ (mieiše), ⲙⲓϣⲉ (miše)

campaign, military expedition

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mšꜥ

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʃʕaj/ → /ˈmaʃʕaj/ → /ˈmaʃʕə/ → /ˈmaʃʕə/^[1]

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛʃɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: mesha

3-lit.

(intransitive) to march
(intransitive) to campaign

Conjugation of mšꜥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mšꜥ, geminated stem: mšꜥꜥ

infinitival forms	imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
mšꜥ	mšꜥw, mšꜥ	mšꜥt	mšꜥ	mšꜥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active
perfect	mšꜥ.n	consecutive	mšꜥ.jn
terminative	mšꜥt
perfective³	mšꜥ	obligative¹	mšꜥ.ḫr
imperfective	mšꜥ
prospective³	mšꜥ	potentialis¹	mšꜥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	mšꜥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
active	active	passive
perfect	mšꜥ.n	—	—
perfective	mšꜥ	mšꜥ	mšꜥ, mšꜥw⁵, mšꜥy⁵
imperfective	mšꜥ, mšꜥy, mšꜥw⁵	mšꜥ, mšꜥj⁶, mšꜥy⁶	mšꜥ, mšꜥw⁵
prospective	mšꜥ, mšꜥtj⁷	mšꜥtj⁴, mšꜥt⁴

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 hieroglyphic writings of mšꜥ

Demotic: mšꜥ
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲟϣⲓ (moši)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲟϣⲉ (mooše)

Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 97

^ Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 39
^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 44–45