ḏdꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛdɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: djeda

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of meat or fat) to be(come) fatty [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. (intransitive, of animals) to be(come) fat [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. (intransitive, of cereals) to ripen, to be(come) ripe [Greco-Roman Period]
4. (intransitive, of fields) to to be(come) ripe with grain [Greco-Roman Period]
5. (transitive, of the Nile) to make ripe, to ripen (grain or fields) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḏdꜣ ḏdꜣw, ḏdꜣ ḏdꜣt ḏdꜣ ḏdꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḏdꜣ ḥr ḏdꜣ m ḏdꜣ r ḏdꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḏdꜣ.n ḏdꜣw, ḏdꜣ consecutive ḏdꜣ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḏdꜣt perfective3 ḏdꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḏdꜣ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḏdꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḏdꜣ ḏdꜣꜣ potentialis1 ḏdꜣ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḏdꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḏdꜣ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḏdꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 ḏdꜣ ḏdꜣ, ḏdꜣw5, ḏdꜣy5 imperfective ḏdꜣ, ḏdꜣy, ḏdꜣw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḏdꜣ, ḏdꜣj6, ḏdꜣy6 ḏdꜣ, ḏdꜣw5 prospective ḏdꜣ, ḏdꜣtj7 — ḏdꜣtj4, ḏdꜣt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏdꜣ  

ḏdꜣ

of meat, fat, or animals

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ϫⲧⲁⲓ (čtai)

Noun

 m

1. fat
2. part of a plant used medicinally. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. pith

Inflection

Declension of ḏdꜣ (masculine)

singular	ḏdꜣ
dual	ḏdꜣwj
plural	ḏdꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏdꜣ  

ḏd

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 631.3–632.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325