ꜣdt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑdɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: adet

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to prepare (beds or skins) for sleeping (in some unclear way); to make the bed

Usage notes

Attested only twice, both times in the Admonitions of Ipuwer. It is possible that the word is to be identified with ꜣd (“to smear (a pot)^?”), with both of them perhaps meaning ‘to smooth’ or something similar.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣdt	ꜣdtw, ꜣdt	ꜣdtt	ꜣdt	ꜣdt

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜣdt.n	ꜣdtw, ꜣdt	consecutive	ꜣdt.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ꜣdtt
perfective3	ꜣdt	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ꜣdt.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ꜣdt	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ꜣdt	ꜣdtt	potentialis1	ꜣdt.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ꜣdt	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜣdt.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ꜣdt	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜣdt	ꜣdt, ꜣdtw5, ꜣdty5
imperfective	ꜣdt, ꜣdty, ꜣdtw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜣdt, ꜣdtj6, ꜣdty6	ꜣdt, ꜣdtw5
prospective	ꜣdt, ꜣdttj7	—	ꜣdttj4, ꜣdtt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣdt  

ꜣdt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 25.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 7