wḏb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (verb): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːcʼab/ → /ˈwaːtʼab/ → /ˈwaːtʼəb/ → /ˈwoːtʼəβ/

• (verb): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːcʼab/ (infinitive)
• (verb): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːtʼab/ (infinitive)
• (verb): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːtʼəb/ (infinitive)
• (verb): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwoːtʼəβ/ (infinitive)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛd͡ʒɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: wedjeb

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to turn (+ ḥr: to (someone))
2. to move, to shift

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wḏb	wḏbw, wḏb	wḏbt	wḏb	wḏb

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	wḏb.n	wḏbw, wḏb	consecutive	wḏb.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	wḏbt
perfective3	wḏb	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	wḏb.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	wḏb	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	wḏb	wḏbb	potentialis1	wḏb.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	wḏb	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wḏb.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	wḏb	active + .tj1, .tw2	wḏb	wḏb, wḏbw5, wḏby5
imperfective	wḏb, wḏby, wḏbw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	wḏb, wḏbj6, wḏby6	wḏb, wḏbw5
prospective	wḏb, wḏbtj7	—	wḏbtj4, wḏbt4
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.

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲧⲉⲃ (ouōteb)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲧⲃ (ouōtb)

Noun

 m

1. shore, sandbank

Inflection

Declension of wḏb (masculine)

singular	wḏb
dual	wḏbwj
plural	wḏbw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 408.3–408.15, 409.2–409.7