fdq

Egyptian

FWOTD – 17 September 2020

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛdɛk/
  • Conventional anglicization: fedeq

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to cut up, to divide, to cut apart into smaller pieces
   • c. 2112–2063 BCE (reign of Intef II), Funerary stele of Rediu-Khnum from his tomb at Dendera (UE 6) (Cairo CG 20543), line A13–A14:

     srwd.n(.j) gmt.n(.j) wzṯ(.w) ṯz.n(.j) gmt.n(.j) fdq(.w) mḥ.n(.j) gmt.n(.j) jꜣṯ(.w)

     I made firm what I found dilapidated; I joined together what I found cut apart; I replenished what I found injured.

2. (transitive) to sever, to cut off (roots or body parts)
3. (transitive) to lay waste, to devastate (lands)
4. (transitive) to extirpate, to wipe out (abstract things: lies, wrongs, names, etc.)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural fdq fdqw, fdq fdqt fdq fdq ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 fdq ḥr fdq m fdq r fdq suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect fdq.n fdqw, fdq consecutive fdq.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative fdqt perfective3 fdq active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 fdq.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective fdq active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 fdq fdqq potentialis1 fdq.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive fdq active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect fdq.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective fdq active + .tj1, .tw2 fdq fdq, fdqw5, fdqy5 imperfective fdq, fdqy, fdqw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 fdq, fdqj6, fdqy6 fdq, fdqw5 prospective fdq, fdqtj7 — fdqtj4, fdqt4 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 fdq  

fdq

Noun

 m

1. piece, slice, portion

Inflection

Declension of fdq (masculine)

singular	fdq
dual	fdqwj
plural	fdqw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 583.6–583.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99