ꜣdt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑdɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: adet

Verb

3-lit.

(transitive) to prepare (beds or skins) for sleeping (in some unclear way); to make the bed

Usage notes

Attested only twice, both times in the Admonitions of Ipuwer. It is possible that the word is to be identified with ꜣd (“to smear (a pot)^?”), with both of them perhaps meaning ‘to smooth’ or something similar.^[1]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜣdt	ꜣdtw, ꜣdt	ꜣdtt	ꜣdt	ꜣdt

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
aspect / mood	active	passive	aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜣdt.n	ꜣdtw, ꜣdt	consecutive	ꜣdt.jn	active + .tj¹, .tw²
perfect	ꜣdt.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²
terminative	ꜣdtt
perfective³	ꜣdt	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	ꜣdt.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
imperfective	ꜣdt	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	ꜣdt.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	ꜣdt	ꜣdtt	potentialis¹	ꜣdt.kꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	ꜣdt	active + .tj¹, .tw²
subjunctive	ꜣdt	active + .tj¹, .tw²

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜣdt.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ꜣdt	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜣdt	ꜣdt, ꜣdtw⁵, ꜣdty⁵
imperfective	ꜣdt, ꜣdty, ꜣdtw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜣdt, ꜣdtj⁶, ꜣdty⁶	ꜣdt, ꜣdtw⁵
prospective	ꜣdt, ꜣdttj⁷	—	ꜣdttj⁴, ꜣdtt⁴
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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣdt

ꜣdt

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 25.4
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 7

^ Grapow, Hermann, et al. (1897–1939) Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv des “Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache” (DZA)‎^[1], Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, published 1999, DZA 20.092.010

[1] Grapow, Hermann, et al. (1897–1939) Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv des “Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache” (DZA)‎^[1], Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, published 1999, DZA 20.092.010

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