wḏꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːcʼaʕ/ → /ˈwaːt͡ʃʼaʕ/ → /ˈwaːt͡ʃʼəʕ/ → /ˈwoːt͡ʃʼəʕ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːcʼaʕ/ (infinitive)
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːt͡ʃʼaʕ/ (infinitive)
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːt͡ʃʼəʕ/ (infinitive)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwoːt͡ʃʼəʕ/ (infinitive)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛd͡ʒɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: wedja

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to judge, to decide
2. (transitive) to separate, to sever

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wḏꜥ	wḏꜥw, wḏꜥ	wḏꜥt	wḏꜥ	wḏꜥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	wḏꜥ.n	wḏꜥw, wḏꜥ	consecutive	wḏꜥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	wḏꜥt
perfective3	wḏꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	wḏꜥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	wḏꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	wḏꜥ	wḏꜥꜥ	potentialis1	wḏꜥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	wḏꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wḏꜥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	wḏꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	wḏꜥ	wḏꜥ, wḏꜥw5, wḏꜥy5
imperfective	wḏꜥ, wḏꜥy, wḏꜥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	wḏꜥ, wḏꜥj6, wḏꜥy6	wḏꜥ, wḏꜥw5
prospective	wḏꜥ, wḏꜥtj7	—	wḏꜥtj4, wḏꜥt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜥ  

wḏꜥ	wḏꜥ

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲱϫⲉ (ouōōče), ⲟⲩⲱϫⲉ (ouōče)

Proper noun

 m

1. an epithet of the god Set, literally ‘the Judged’, i.e. ‘the Condemned One’

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 191, 276, 309.