sḫdḫd

Egyptian[edit]

Reduplication of sḫd (“to invert”), itself prefixed with s-.

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛdxɛd/
- Conventional anglicization: sekhedkhed

caus. 4-lit.

Conjugation of sḫdḫd (causative quadriliteral / caus. 4-lit. / caus. 4rad.) — base stem: sḫdḫd

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sḫdḫd	sḫdḫdw, sḫdḫd	sḫdḫdt	sḫdḫd	sḫdḫd

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḫdḫd.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sḫdḫd	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḫdḫd	sḫdḫd, sḫdḫdw⁵, sḫdḫdy⁵
imperfective	sḫdḫd, sḫdḫdy, sḫdḫdw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḫdḫd, sḫdḫdj⁶, sḫdḫdy⁶	sḫdḫd, sḫdḫdw⁵
prospective	sḫdḫd, sḫdḫdtj⁷	—	sḫdḫdwtj^{1 4}, sḫdḫdtj⁴, sḫdḫdt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158.