nḏdnḏd

Egyptian

Etymology

Reduplication of *nḏd, from n- (intransitivizer) +‎ ḏdj (“to endure”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛd͡ʒɛdnɛd͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: nedjednedjed

Verb

 6-lit.

1. (intransitive, Old Egyptian) to endure [Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

Conjugation of nḏdnḏd (hexaliteral / 6-lit. / 6rad.) — base stem: nḏdnḏd

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nḏdnḏd	nḏdnḏdw, nḏdnḏd	nḏdnḏdt	nḏdnḏd	nḏdnḏd

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nḏdnḏd.n	consecutive	nḏdnḏd.jn
terminative	nḏdnḏdt
perfective3	nḏdnḏd	obligative1	nḏdnḏd.ḫr
imperfective	nḏdnḏd
prospective3	nḏdnḏdw, nḏdnḏd	potentialis1	nḏdnḏd.kꜣ
subjunctive	nḏdnḏd

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nḏdnḏd.n	—	—
perfective	nḏdnḏd	nḏdnḏd	nḏdnḏd, nḏdnḏdw5, nḏdnḏdy5
imperfective	nḏdnḏd, nḏdnḏdy, nḏdnḏdw5	nḏdnḏd, nḏdnḏdj6, nḏdnḏdy6	nḏdnḏd, nḏdnḏdw5
prospective	nḏdnḏd, nḏdnḏdtj7	nḏdnḏdwtj1 4, nḏdnḏdtj4, nḏdnḏdt4
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.

Related terms

• nḏdḏd

References

• “nḏdnḏd (lemma ID 91860)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 386.3
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 157.