ky-ḏd

Egyptian

Etymology

ky (“another”) +‎ ḏd (“speaking”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘another one of speaking’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kiː d͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: ky-djed

Noun

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1. (in religious and medical texts) stands at the start of phrases giving variant readings, glosses, or interpretations; alternatively; otherwise said; alternative reading: …
2. (Late Egyptian, in letters) stands at the start of phrases giving further information; furthermore; and another thing: …

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ky-ḏd  

k-ḏd

[Late Period]

References

• “ky-ḏd (lemma ID 500002)”, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 111.11–111.13, 624.9–624.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325