jfdj

Egyptian

Etymology

From jfdw (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ifɛdi/
  • Conventional anglicization: ifedi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (transitive) to quadruple

Inflection

Conjugation of jfdj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: jfd, geminated stem: jfdd

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jfd jfdw, jfdyw, jfd jfdt, jfdwt, jfdyt jfd jfd, jfdy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jfd8 ḥr jfd m jfd r jfd suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect jfd.n jfdw, jfd, jfdy consecutive jfd.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative jfdt perfective3 jfd active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 jfd.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective jfd, jfdy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 jfdw, jfd, jfdy jfdd potentialis1 jfd.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive jfd, jfdy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect jfd.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective jfdw1, jfdy, jfd active + .tj1, .tw2 jfd jfdy, jfd imperfective jfdd, jfddy, jfddw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 jfdd, jfddj6, jfddy6 jfdd, jfddw5 prospective jfdw1, jfdy, jfd, jfdtj7 — jfdwtj1 4, jfdtj4, jfdt4 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.

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of jfd (“(linen) sheet”)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jfdj  

jfdj

[New Kingdom]

in hieratic

References

• “jfdi̯ (lemma ID 859052)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 17