sdwḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛduːx/
  • Conventional anglicization: sedukh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive) to embalm

Inflection

Conjugation of sdwḫ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: sdwḫ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sdwḫ sdwḫw, sdwḫ sdwḫt sdwḫ sdwḫ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sdwḫ ḥr sdwḫ m sdwḫ r sdwḫ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sdwḫ.n sdwḫw, sdwḫ consecutive sdwḫ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sdwḫt perfective3 sdwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sdwḫ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sdwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sdwḫw, sdwḫ sdwḫw, sdwḫ potentialis1 sdwḫ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sdwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sdwḫ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sdwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 sdwḫ sdwḫ, sdwḫw5, sdwḫy5 imperfective sdwḫ, sdwḫy, sdwḫw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sdwḫ, sdwḫj6, sdwḫy6 sdwḫ, sdwḫw5 prospective sdwḫ, sdwḫtj7 — sdwḫwtj1 4, sdwḫtj4, sdwḫt4 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 sdwḫ  

sdwḫ

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 368.6–368.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 256