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English [ edit ]
spd
Abbreviation of speed .
Anagrams [ edit ]
Egyptian [ edit ]
Pronunciation [ edit ]
3-lit.
( intransitive ) to be(come) sharp , to have a sharp point
c. 1900 BCE ,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse /pBN 183) lines 1.2–1.3:
spd dsw r th-mtn nn ḥn nj js ḥr zp.fSharp are the knives against one who transgresses the path; there is no haste except at its proper time.
( intransitive ) to be(come) pointy , to have a pointy shape
( transitive ) to sharpen [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]
( intransitive , of people or body parts) to be(come) adept , skilful , effective
( intransitive , of speech, ideas, laws, etc.) to be(come) effective
Inflection [ edit ]
Conjugation of spd (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: spd , geminated stem: spdd
infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive1
singular
plural
spd
spdw , spd
spdt
spd
spd
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
spd
ḥr spd
m spd
r spd
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
contingent
aspect / mood
active
perfect
spd.n
consecutive
spd.jn
terminative
spdt
perfective 3
spd
obligative1
spd.ḫr
imperfective
spd
prospective 3
spd
potentialis1
spd.kꜣ
subjunctive
spd
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
active
passive
perfect
spd.n
—
—
perfective
spd
spd
spd , spdw 5 , spdy 5
imperfective
spd , spdy , spdw 5
spd , spdj 6 , spdy 6
spd , spdw 5
prospective
spd , spdtj 7
spdtj 4 , spdt 4
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 [ edit ]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of spd
spd
spd
spd
spd
spt
[Old Kingdom]
[Old Kingdom]
[Old Kingdom]
[since the Middle Kingdom]
[Late Period]
Derived terms [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
“spd (lemma ID 500142) ”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae [1] , Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
Erman, Adolf , Grapow, Hermann (1930 ) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [2] , volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN , pages 108.2–110.8
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN , pages 223–224