sḥḏ

See also: shd, sḥd, and sḫd

Egyptian

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḥḏ (“to be white”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛhɛd͡ʒ/
- Conventional anglicization: sehedj

caus. 2-lit.

(transitive) to brighten
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 12–13:
  
  ḫꜥ ḥr nst nt (j)t.f mj rꜥ wbn.f m ꜣḫt rdj.f šsp n ḥr(j) kkw sḥḏ.n.f šw m šwtj.fj bꜥḥ.n.f tꜣwj mj jṯn m tp-dwꜣyt
  One shining forth on the throne of his father like Ra when he rises in the Akhet, he gave light to what was covered by darkness, having brightened the air with his two plumes, having flooded the Two Lands (Egypt) like the sun disk at the break of dawn.

Conjugation of sḥḏ (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: sḥḏ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sḥḏt, sḥḏ	sḥḏw, sḥḏ	sḥḏt	sḥḏ	sḥḏ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḥḏ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sḥḏ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḥḏ	sḥḏ, sḥḏw⁵, sḥḏy⁵
imperfective	sḥḏ, sḥḏy, sḥḏw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḥḏ, sḥḏj⁶, sḥḏy⁶	sḥḏ, sḥḏw⁵
prospective	sḥḏ, sḥḏtj⁷	—	sḥḏwtj^{1 4}, sḥḏtj⁴, sḥḏt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of sḥḏ

sḥḏ

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 312.