sḏꜣ

See also: sdꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 7 November 2019

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: sedja

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to transport

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sḏꜣ	sḏꜣw, sḏꜣ	sḏꜣt	sḏꜣ	sḏꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sḏꜣ.n	sḏꜣw, sḏꜣ	consecutive	sḏꜣ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sḏꜣt
perfective3	sḏꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sḏꜣ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sḏꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sḏꜣ	sḏꜣꜣ	potentialis1	sḏꜣ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sḏꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḏꜣ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sḏꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	sḏꜣ	sḏꜣ, sḏꜣw5, sḏꜣy5
imperfective	sḏꜣ, sḏꜣy, sḏꜣw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sḏꜣ, sḏꜣj6, sḏꜣy6	sḏꜣ, sḏꜣw5
prospective	sḏꜣ, sḏꜣtj7	—	sḏꜣtj4, sḏꜣt4
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.

Noun

 m

1. cylinder seal, typically on a necklace
   • 2nd Dynasty, c. 2690 BCE, Abydos, Tomb of Peribsen, Part of a jar-seal of dull grey clay with a seal-impression of Peribsen (British Museum EA35594), combined lower and upper impressions:

     sḏꜣ ḫt nb(t) nb(w)t nb(w)j d(m)ḏ.n.f tꜣwj n zꜣ.f nswt-bjtj pr-jb.sn

     Cylinder seal of all golden things. The Golden One (Set), he has united the Two Lands (Egypt) for his son, the Dual King Peribsen.

Inflection

Declension of sḏꜣ (masculine)

singular	sḏꜣ
dual	sḏꜣwj
plural	sḏꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḏꜣ  

sḏꜣ

[2nd Dynasty]

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 323.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 378.12–378.16
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 636.7