See wsjr in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "mswt-wsjr"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "akk",
"alt1": "(𒁍)𒅆𒊒",
"bor": "1",
"ts": "-uširu"
},
"expansion": "→ Akkadian: (𒁍)𒅆𒊒 (/-uširu/)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Akkadian: (𒁍)𒅆𒊒 (/-uširu/) in 𒌷𒁍𒅆𒊒 (^(ālu)pu-ši-ru), 𒍜 (/-šir/) in 𒁹𒁍𒋾𒍜 (ˡpu-ti-šir₄)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "Ὄσιρις",
"3": "Ὕσιρις",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Ancient Greek: Ὄσιρις (Ósiris), Ὕσιρις (Húsiris)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Ancient Greek: Ὄσιρις (Ósiris), Ὕσιρις (Húsiris)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Osiris",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: Osiris",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: Osiris"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "Osīris",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Latin: Osīris",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Latin: Osīris"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "arc",
"2": "אוֹסרי",
"3": "אסרי",
"alt3": "אסר-",
"alt4": "-וסרי",
"alt5": "-סרי",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Aramaic: אוֹסרי, אסרי, אסר-, -וסרי, -סרי",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Aramaic: אוֹסרי, אסרי, אסר-, -וסרי, -סרי"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "egx-dem",
"2": "wsjr",
"3": "Ουσιρι",
"alt3": "Ουσορ-"
},
"expansion": "Demotic: wsjr, Ουσιρι (Ousiri), Ουσορ- (Ousor-)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Demotic: wsjr, Ουσιρι (Ousiri), Ουσορ- (Ousor-)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cop-boh",
"2": "ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ"
},
"expansion": "Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ (ousiri)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ (ousiri)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cop-sah",
"2": "ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ"
},
"expansion": "Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ (ousire)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ (ousire)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "xmr",
"2": "𐦠𐦯𐦣𐦫𐦢",
"bor": "1",
"ts": "asuri/, /usuri"
},
"expansion": "→ Meroitic: 𐦠𐦯𐦣𐦫𐦢 (asori /asuri/, /usuri/)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Meroitic: 𐦠𐦯𐦣𐦫𐦢 (asori /asuri/, /usuri/)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "phn",
"2": "𐤀𐤎𐤓",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓 (ʾsr)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓 (ʾsr)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sem-tha",
"alt1": "𐩦𐩧",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "-śr"
},
"expansion": "→ Thamudic: 𐩦𐩧 (-śr)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thamudic: 𐩦𐩧 (-śr) in 𐩱𐩨𐩵𐩦𐩧 (ʿbdśr)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Several proposals have been made for the etymology and meaning of the original name; as Smith (2017) notes, none are fully convincing. Most take wsjr as the accepted transliteration, following Adolf Erman:\n* Griffiths (1980), “bearing in mind Erman’s emphasis on the fact that the name must begin with an [sic] w”, proposes a derivation from wsr with an original meaning of “The Mighty One”.\n* Sethe (1930) proposes a compound st-jrt, meaning “seat of the eye”, in a hypothetical earlier form *wst-jrt; this is rejected by Griffiths on phonetic grounds.\n* Lorton (1985) takes up a similar compound but explains st-jrt as signifying “product, something made”, from the verb jrj, with Osiris representing the product of the mummification process.\n* Westendorf (1987) proposes an etymology from wꜣst-jrt “she who bears the eye”.\n* Zeidler (2000) reviews the common hypotheses and rejects the interpretation of the second element as either jrj (“to do, make”) or jrt (“eye”) on phonetic grounds, ultimately agreeing with Griffiths on the meaning and rendering the name (w)sr(w) with the assumption that the writing of the name reflects an archaic use of the throne and eye hieroglyphs as uniliteral signs.\n* Smith (2017) makes no definitive proposals but asserts that the second element must be a form of jrj (“to do, make”) (rather than jrt (“eye”)), since the word is found complemented with r in writings of the Middle Kingdom.\nHowever, recently alternative transliterations have been proposed:\n* Muchiki (1990) reexamines Erman’s evidence that the throne hieroglyph in the word is to be read ws and finds it unconvincing, suggesting instead that the name should be read ꜣsjr on the basis of Aramaic, Phoenician, and Old South Arabian transcriptions, readings of the throne sign in other words, and comparison with ꜣst (“Isis”).\n* Allen (2010) reads the word as jsjrt but later revises the reading (2013) to jsjrj and derives it from js-jrj, meaning “engendering (male) principle”.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "st-ir",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "egy",
"2": "proper nouns",
"head": "<hiero>st-ir</hiero>"
},
"expansion": "st-ir",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"head": "<hiero>st-ir</hiero>"
},
"expansion": "st-ir m",
"name": "egy-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Egyptian",
"lang_code": "egy",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "82 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Gods",
"orig": "egy:Gods",
"parents": [
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Hail to you, Osiris, lord of eternity, king of gods, numerous of names, sacred of developments, secret of rites in temples!",
"ref": "c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 1",
"text": "i-nD-D:Hr:k-Q2:ir-nb:H*ra*H-sw-t:Z2ss-nTr-I1S:Z2-r:n:nw*Z2ss-Dsr:r-xpr-Z3-S:t*U30-i-ir:w-m-r:Z1-pr:Z1*Z2ss\nj.nḏ ḥr.k wsjr nb nḥḥ nswt nṯr(w) ꜥšꜣ rnw ḏsr ḫprw štꜣ jrw m rw-prw"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the god Osiris"
],
"id": "en-wsjr-egy-name-ONMf6-nr",
"links": [
[
"god",
"god"
],
[
"Osiris",
"Osiris"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Egyptian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 87",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 93",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 88",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Titles",
"orig": "egy:Titles",
"parents": [
"People",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"conventionally appended before the name of the deceased: Osirian form of a dead person, deceased person as Osiris (see usage notes)"
],
"id": "en-wsjr-egy-name-m9kFTOk5",
"links": [
[
"Osirian",
"Osirian"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"dead",
"dead"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"deceased",
"deceased"
],
[
"Osiris",
"Osiris"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in funerary literature) conventionally appended before the name of the deceased: Osirian form of a dead person, deceased person as Osiris (see usage notes)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in funerary literature"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wɛsir/",
"note": "modern Egyptological"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "st:ir"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ir-st"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "st:ir-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ir-st-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "F51B:r-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Q2:ir"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "H8:r"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "st-ir:r-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "wsr"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "[Coffin Texts]"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "[Middle Kingdom]"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Q2:ir-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ir:Q2"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "U40-ir-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "st-ra-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ir:st*nTr"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "wAs-ir"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "w-s-r:A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "W-s-gb-A40"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sxt-gb-r-nTr"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "wꜣsjr"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "[18th Dynasty]"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "[19th–20th Dynasty]"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "[Late Period]"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "[Greco-Roman Period]"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "in hieratic"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Osiris"
],
"word": "wsjr"
}
{
"categories": [
"Egyptian entries with incorrect language header",
"Egyptian lemmas",
"Egyptian masculine nouns",
"Egyptian proper nouns",
"Egyptian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"egy:Gods",
"egy:Titles"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "mswt-wsjr"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "akk",
"alt1": "(𒁍)𒅆𒊒",
"bor": "1",
"ts": "-uširu"
},
"expansion": "→ Akkadian: (𒁍)𒅆𒊒 (/-uširu/)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Akkadian: (𒁍)𒅆𒊒 (/-uširu/) in 𒌷𒁍𒅆𒊒 (^(ālu)pu-ši-ru), 𒍜 (/-šir/) in 𒁹𒁍𒋾𒍜 (ˡpu-ti-šir₄)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "Ὄσιρις",
"3": "Ὕσιρις",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Ancient Greek: Ὄσιρις (Ósiris), Ὕσιρις (Húsiris)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Ancient Greek: Ὄσιρις (Ósiris), Ὕσιρις (Húsiris)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Osiris",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: Osiris",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: Osiris"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "Osīris",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Latin: Osīris",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Latin: Osīris"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "arc",
"2": "אוֹסרי",
"3": "אסרי",
"alt3": "אסר-",
"alt4": "-וסרי",
"alt5": "-סרי",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Aramaic: אוֹסרי, אסרי, אסר-, -וסרי, -סרי",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Aramaic: אוֹסרי, אסרי, אסר-, -וסרי, -סרי"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "egx-dem",
"2": "wsjr",
"3": "Ουσιρι",
"alt3": "Ουσορ-"
},
"expansion": "Demotic: wsjr, Ουσιρι (Ousiri), Ουσορ- (Ousor-)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Demotic: wsjr, Ουσιρι (Ousiri), Ουσορ- (Ousor-)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cop-boh",
"2": "ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ"
},
"expansion": "Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ (ousiri)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ (ousiri)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cop-sah",
"2": "ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ"
},
"expansion": "Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ (ousire)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ (ousire)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "xmr",
"2": "𐦠𐦯𐦣𐦫𐦢",
"bor": "1",
"ts": "asuri/, /usuri"
},
"expansion": "→ Meroitic: 𐦠𐦯𐦣𐦫𐦢 (asori /asuri/, /usuri/)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Meroitic: 𐦠𐦯𐦣𐦫𐦢 (asori /asuri/, /usuri/)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "phn",
"2": "𐤀𐤎𐤓",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓 (ʾsr)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓 (ʾsr)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sem-tha",
"alt1": "𐩦𐩧",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "-śr"
},
"expansion": "→ Thamudic: 𐩦𐩧 (-śr)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thamudic: 𐩦𐩧 (-śr) in 𐩱𐩨𐩵𐩦𐩧 (ʿbdśr)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Several proposals have been made for the etymology and meaning of the original name; as Smith (2017) notes, none are fully convincing. Most take wsjr as the accepted transliteration, following Adolf Erman:\n* Griffiths (1980), “bearing in mind Erman’s emphasis on the fact that the name must begin with an [sic] w”, proposes a derivation from wsr with an original meaning of “The Mighty One”.\n* Sethe (1930) proposes a compound st-jrt, meaning “seat of the eye”, in a hypothetical earlier form *wst-jrt; this is rejected by Griffiths on phonetic grounds.\n* Lorton (1985) takes up a similar compound but explains st-jrt as signifying “product, something made”, from the verb jrj, with Osiris representing the product of the mummification process.\n* Westendorf (1987) proposes an etymology from wꜣst-jrt “she who bears the eye”.\n* Zeidler (2000) reviews the common hypotheses and rejects the interpretation of the second element as either jrj (“to do, make”) or jrt (“eye”) on phonetic grounds, ultimately agreeing with Griffiths on the meaning and rendering the name (w)sr(w) with the assumption that the writing of the name reflects an archaic use of the throne and eye hieroglyphs as uniliteral signs.\n* Smith (2017) makes no definitive proposals but asserts that the second element must be a form of jrj (“to do, make”) (rather than jrt (“eye”)), since the word is found complemented with r in writings of the Middle Kingdom.\nHowever, recently alternative transliterations have been proposed:\n* Muchiki (1990) reexamines Erman’s evidence that the throne hieroglyph in the word is to be read ws and finds it unconvincing, suggesting instead that the name should be read ꜣsjr on the basis of Aramaic, Phoenician, and Old South Arabian transcriptions, readings of the throne sign in other words, and comparison with ꜣst (“Isis”).\n* Allen (2010) reads the word as jsjrt but later revises the reading (2013) to jsjrj and derives it from js-jrj, meaning “engendering (male) principle”.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "st-ir",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "egy",
"2": "proper nouns",
"head": "<hiero>st-ir</hiero>"
},
"expansion": "st-ir",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"head": "<hiero>st-ir</hiero>"
},
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"name": "egy-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Egyptian",
"lang_code": "egy",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Egyptian terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Hail to you, Osiris, lord of eternity, king of gods, numerous of names, sacred of developments, secret of rites in temples!",
"ref": "c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 1",
"text": "i-nD-D:Hr:k-Q2:ir-nb:H*ra*H-sw-t:Z2ss-nTr-I1S:Z2-r:n:nw*Z2ss-Dsr:r-xpr-Z3-S:t*U30-i-ir:w-m-r:Z1-pr:Z1*Z2ss\nj.nḏ ḥr.k wsjr nb nḥḥ nswt nṯr(w) ꜥšꜣ rnw ḏsr ḫprw štꜣ jrw m rw-prw"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the god Osiris"
],
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[
"god",
"god"
],
[
"Osiris",
"Osiris"
]
]
},
{
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"conventionally appended before the name of the deceased: Osirian form of a dead person, deceased person as Osiris (see usage notes)"
],
"links": [
[
"Osirian",
"Osirian"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"dead",
"dead"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"deceased",
"deceased"
],
[
"Osiris",
"Osiris"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in funerary literature) conventionally appended before the name of the deceased: Osirian form of a dead person, deceased person as Osiris (see usage notes)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in funerary literature"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/wɛsir/",
"note": "modern Egyptological"
}
],
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{
"word": "st:ir"
},
{
"word": "ir-st"
},
{
"word": "st:ir-A40"
},
{
"word": "ir-st-A40"
},
{
"word": "F51B:r-A40"
},
{
"word": "Q2:ir"
},
{
"word": "H8:r"
},
{
"word": "st-ir:r-A40"
},
{
"word": "wsr"
},
{
"word": "[Coffin Texts]"
},
{
"word": "[Middle Kingdom]"
},
{
"word": "Q2:ir-A40"
},
{
"word": "ir:Q2"
},
{
"word": "U40-ir-A40"
},
{
"word": "st-ra-A40"
},
{
"word": "ir:st*nTr"
},
{
"word": "wAs-ir"
},
{
"word": "w-s-r:A40"
},
{
"word": "W-s-gb-A40"
},
{
"word": "sxt-gb-r-nTr"
},
{
"word": "wꜣsjr"
},
{
"word": "[18th Dynasty]"
},
{
"word": "[19th–20th Dynasty]"
},
{
"word": "[Late Period]"
},
{
"word": "[Greco-Roman Period]"
},
{
"word": "in hieratic"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Osiris"
],
"word": "wsjr"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Egyptian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.