jfdt

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Egyptian

Etymology

From jfdw (“four”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

Noun

if
d		 t
Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1

 f

  1. tetrad, foursome, quartet
    if
    d
    t Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1    		 n
    t    		 d
    p w    		 t
    X4
    Z2
    (as an offering to the dead) ― jfdt nt dpwt ― a foursome of dpt-bread loaves
    if
    d
    t Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1    		 n
    t    		 p
    z
    n    		 nwX4
    Z2
    (as an offering to the dead) ― jfdt nt pznw ― a foursome of pzn-bread loaves
  2. four-day period
  3. one’s four legs, all fours

Inflection

Declension of jfdt (feminine)
singular jfdt
dual jfdtj
plural jfdwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jfdt  
if
d		 tra
Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1
rdt
Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1
if
d
Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1
jfdt jfdt jfd
in sense ‘four day period’ in sense ‘four legs’

Descendants

  • Akhmimic Coptic: -ⲉϥⲧⲉ (-efte)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: -ⲏⲃⲧⲓ (-ēbti)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: -ⲉϥⲧⲉ (-efte)
  • Sahidic Coptic: -ⲁϥⲧⲉ (-afte)

References

  • “jfd.t (lemma ID 24620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 71.5–71.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 17
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