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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be parched with thirst
- (intransitive) to suffocate from lack of air
Inflection
Conjugation of nḏꜣ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: nḏꜣ, geminated stem: nḏꜣꜣ
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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nḏꜣ
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nḏꜣw, nḏꜣ
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nḏꜣt
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nḏꜣ
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nḏꜣ
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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nḏꜣ
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ḥr nḏꜣ
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m nḏꜣ
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r nḏꜣ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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| perfect
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nḏꜣ.n
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consecutive
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nḏꜣ.jn
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| terminative
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nḏꜣt
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| perfective3
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nḏꜣ
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obligative1
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nḏꜣ.ḫr
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| imperfective
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nḏꜣ
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| prospective3
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nḏꜣ
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potentialis1
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nḏꜣ.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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nḏꜣ
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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nḏꜣ.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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nḏꜣ
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nḏꜣ
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nḏꜣ, nḏꜣw5, nḏꜣy5
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| imperfective
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nḏꜣ, nḏꜣy, nḏꜣw5
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nḏꜣ, nḏꜣj6, nḏꜣy6
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nḏꜣ, nḏꜣw5
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| prospective
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nḏꜣ, nḏꜣtj7
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nḏꜣtj4, nḏꜣt4
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- 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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḏꜣ
Noun
m
- thirst
See under the verb above.
Noun
m
- Alternative form of mḏꜣ (“a unit of measure for dates and loaves”)
Inflection
Declension of nḏꜣ (masculine)
Noun
m
- Alternative form of nꜣḏꜣrw (“chip, ostracon”)
Inflection
Declension of nḏꜣ (masculine)
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 377.5–377.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 144
