ḏdft

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḏdf (“to form goosebumps, to stand on end”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛdfɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: djedfet

Noun

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1. any crawling legless animal; snake, serpent, worm
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 11–12:

     tꜣ pn m-ꜥ.f mw.f ṯꜣw.f sm(w).f mnmnt.f nbt pꜣyt nbt ḫnnt nbt ḏdfwt.f ꜥwt.f ḫꜣst smꜣꜥ.w n zꜣ nwt tꜣwj hr.w ḥr.s

     This land is in his hand — its water and its wind, its plants and all its cattle, all that flies and all that lands, its creeping creatures and its quadrupeds of the desert, were given to the son of Nut, and the Two Lands (Egypt) are pleased with it.

Inflection

Declension of ḏdft (feminine)

singular	ḏdft
dual	ḏdftj
plural	ḏdfwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏdft  

ḏdf

[since the Late Period]

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ϫⲉⲧϥⲉ (četfe)
• Bohairic Coptic: ϭⲁⲧϥⲓ (catfi)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ϫⲉⲧϥⲓ (četfi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϫⲁⲧϥⲉ (čatfe), ϫⲁⲧⲃⲉ (čatbe)
• Lycopolitan Coptic: ϫⲉⲧϥⲉ (četfe)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 633.6–634.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 326