wrḏ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛrɛd͡ʒ/
  • Conventional anglicization: weredj

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) weary or tired, to tire
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to die
   • c. 1900 BCE – 1839 BCE, Coffin Texts, version B1C (coffin of Sepi III, Cairo CG 28083) spell 755:

     wrḏ ꜥwt m ws(j)r nj wrḏ zpwj snwj nj ḥwꜣ.sn ꜣd.sn nj [bn.sn nj] jr mw ḏw

     The limbs in Osiris are weary (i.e. dead), but won’t be weary, won’t be weary, they won’t putrefy or decay, [they] won’t [swell up, won’t] make foul fluid (literally, “evil water”).

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wrḏ wrḏw, wrḏ wrḏt wrḏ wrḏ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wrḏ ḥr wrḏ m wrḏ r wrḏ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect wrḏ.n consecutive wrḏ.jn terminative wrḏt perfective3 wrḏ obligative1 wrḏ.ḫr imperfective wrḏ prospective3 wrḏ potentialis1 wrḏ.kꜣ subjunctive wrḏ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect wrḏ.n — — perfective wrḏ wrḏ wrḏ, wrḏw5, wrḏy5 imperfective wrḏ, wrḏy, wrḏw5 wrḏ, wrḏj6, wrḏy6 wrḏ, wrḏw5 prospective wrḏ, wrḏtj7 wrḏtj4, wrḏt4 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 wrḏ  

wrd

Derived terms

• j.ḫm-wrḏ
• swrd

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 337.1–338.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 65