rḏj

See also: RDJ

Egyptian

anom.

(transitive) to give
(transitive) to put, to set, to place (+ ḥr: to assign to do; + m or + r: to appoint as)
(catenative, with a verb in the subjunctive) to cause, make, let, allow
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.3–2.4:
  
  rdj.jn ṯꜣt(j) njs.t(w) nꜣy.f n(j) ẖrdw m ḫt ꜥrq.f sḫr r(m)ṯw bj(ꜣ)t.sn m jjt ḥr.f
  So the vizier let his children be summoned after he understood the conduct of people, their character being what had come upon him.

Conjugation of rḏj (anomalous / anom.) — base stem: rḏj, ḏj, geminated stem: ḏḏ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
rḏjt, ḏjt	rḏj	—	jmj, ḏj	jmj, ḏj, ḏy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
rḏj⁶, ḏj⁶	ḥr rḏjt, ḥr ḏjt	m rḏjt, m ḏjt	r rḏjt, r ḏjt

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	rḏj.n, ḏj.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	rḏj, ḏj	active + .tj¹, .tw²	rḏj, ḏj	rḏy, rḏj, ḏy, ḏj
imperfective	ḏḏ, ḏḏw, ḏḏy	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḏḏ	ḏḏ, ḏḏw⁵
prospective	—	—	rḏjtj⁴, rḏjt⁴
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. Third-person masculine statives of this verb often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

By Middle Egyptian times, this verb had most likely become rdj, although sometimes written identically to its older form.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rḏj

rḏj

rdj

rtj

[chiefly Old Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom]

[Late Period]

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 159, 357.
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 93–94
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 464–468