wḏb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (verb): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːcʼab/ → /ˈwaːtʼab/ → /ˈwaːtʼəb/ → /ˈwoːtʼəβ/

• (verb): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːcʼab/ (infinitive)
• (verb): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːtʼab/ (infinitive)
• (verb): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːtʼəb/ (infinitive)
• (verb): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwoːtʼəβ/ (infinitive)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛd͡ʒɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: wedjeb

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to turn (+ ḥr: to (someone))
2. to move, to shift

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wḏb wḏbw, wḏb wḏbt wḏb wḏb ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wḏb ḥr wḏb m wḏb r wḏb suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wḏb.n wḏbw, wḏb consecutive wḏb.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wḏbt perfective3 wḏb active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wḏb.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wḏb active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wḏb wḏbb potentialis1 wḏb.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wḏb active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wḏb.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wḏb active + .tj1, .tw2 wḏb wḏb, wḏbw5, wḏby5 imperfective wḏb, wḏby, wḏbw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wḏb, wḏbj6, wḏby6 wḏb, wḏbw5 prospective wḏb, wḏbtj7 — wḏbtj4, wḏbt4 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.

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲧⲉⲃ (ouōteb)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲧⲃ (ouōtb)

Noun

 m

1. shore, sandbank

Inflection

Declension of wḏb (masculine)

singular	wḏb
dual	wḏbwj
plural	wḏbw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 408.3–408.15, 409.2–409.7