ḏdj

See also: DDJ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛdi/
  • Conventional anglicization: djedi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to endure, to last

Inflection

Conjugation of ḏdj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḏd, geminated stem: ḏdd

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḏdt, ḏdj ḏdw, ḏd ḏdt, ḏdwt, ḏdyt ḏd ḏd, ḏdy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḏd8, ḏdd8 ḥr ḏdt, ḥr ḏdj m ḏdt, m ḏdj r ḏdt, r ḏdj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḏd.n consecutive ḏd.jn terminative ḏdt, ḏdyt perfective3 ḏd obligative1 ḏd.ḫr imperfective ḏd, ḏdy prospective3 ḏdw, ḏd, ḏdy potentialis1 ḏd.kꜣ subjunctive ḏd, ḏdy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḏd.n — — perfective ḏdw1, ḏdy, ḏd ḏd ḏdy, ḏd imperfective ḏdd, ḏddy, ḏddw5 ḏdd, ḏddj6, ḏddy6 ḏdd, ḏddw5 prospective ḏdw1, ḏdy, ḏd, ḏdtj7 ḏdwtj1 4, ḏdtj4, ḏdt4 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏdj  

ḏdj	ḏdj	ḏdj
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts to 18th Dynasty]	[Since 18th Dynasty]

Derived terms

• ḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ
• ḏd-kꜣ-ḥr

Proper noun

 m

1. a male given name, Djedi

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 628.6–629.15
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 233.