m ḏd

See also: mdd, MDD, and mḏd

Egyptian

Etymology

m +‎ ḏd (infinitive of ḏd (“to say”)).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛm d͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: em djed

Verb

1. periphrastic imperfective of ḏd
2. (with following genitive) as (someone) says [since the Pyramid Texts]
3. (chiefly Late Egyptian) introduces a direct quotation; saying, with the words, as follows

   Synonym: r ḏd

References

• “m-ḏd (lemma ID 550005)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 623.9–623.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325