sḏꜣ

See also: sdꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 7 November 2019

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: sedja

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to transport

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sḏꜣ sḏꜣw, sḏꜣ sḏꜣt sḏꜣ sḏꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sḏꜣ ḥr sḏꜣ m sḏꜣ r sḏꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sḏꜣ.n sḏꜣw, sḏꜣ consecutive sḏꜣ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sḏꜣt perfective3 sḏꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sḏꜣ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sḏꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sḏꜣ sḏꜣꜣ potentialis1 sḏꜣ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sḏꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sḏꜣ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sḏꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 sḏꜣ sḏꜣ, sḏꜣw5, sḏꜣy5 imperfective sḏꜣ, sḏꜣy, sḏꜣw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sḏꜣ, sḏꜣj6, sḏꜣy6 sḏꜣ, sḏꜣw5 prospective sḏꜣ, sḏꜣtj7 — sḏꜣtj4, sḏꜣt4 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.

Noun

 m

1. cylinder seal, typically on a necklace
   • 2nd Dynasty, c. 2690 BCE, Abydos, Tomb of Peribsen, Part of a jar-seal of dull grey clay with a seal-impression of Peribsen (British Museum EA35594), combined lower and upper impressions:

     sḏꜣ ḫt nb(t) nb(w)t nb(w)j d(m)ḏ.n.f tꜣwj n zꜣ.f nswt-bjtj pr-jb.sn

     Cylinder seal of all golden things. The Golden One (Set), he has united the Two Lands (Egypt) for his son, the Dual King Peribsen.

Inflection

Declension of sḏꜣ (masculine)

singular	sḏꜣ
dual	sḏꜣwj
plural	sḏꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḏꜣ  

sḏꜣ

[2nd Dynasty]

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 323.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 378.12–378.16
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 636.7