ꜣdt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (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.

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 perfect ꜣdt.n ꜣdtw, ꜣdt consecutive ꜣdt.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜣdtt perfective3 ꜣdt active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜣdt.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜣdt active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜣdt ꜣdtt potentialis1 ꜣdt.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜣdt active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles 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 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 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