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Egyptian
Etymology
Possibly from šfd (“to grasp”) + -w.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- roll of papyrus, scroll
c. 1900 BCE,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.4–2.5:
- ḏr.n ḏd.n.f n.sn jr ntt nbt m zẖꜣ ḥr pꜣ šfdw sḏm st mj ḏd.j st (j)m zn ḥꜣw ḥr šꜣꜣt
- In the end he said to them: As for everything in the writing on this scroll, heed it as I say it; don’t exceed what has been set down.
Inflection
Declension of šfdw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šfdw
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 461.11–461.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 266
