spd

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English

Noun

spd

  1. Abbreviation of speed.

Anagrams

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

sp
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 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) sharp, to have a sharp point
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.2–1.3:
      spdM44Y1dsWT30
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      h
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      n
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      n
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      p
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      f
      spd dsw r th-mtn nn ḥn nj js ḥr zp.f
      Sharp are the knives against one who transgresses the path; there is no haste except at its proper time.
  2. (intransitive) to be(come) pointy, to have a pointy shape
  3. (transitive) to sharpen
  4. (intransitive, of people or body parts) to be(come) adept, skilful, effective
  5. (intransitive, of speech, ideas, laws, etc.) to be(come) effective

Inflection

Conjugation of spd (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: spd, geminated stem: spdd
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
spd
spdw, spd
spdt
spd
spd
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
spd
ḥr spd
m spd
r spd
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect spd.n
consecutive spd.jn
terminative spdt
perfective3 spd
obligative1 spd.ḫr
imperfective spd
prospective3 spd
potentialis1 spd.kꜣ
subjunctive spd
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect spd.n
perfective spd
spd
spd, spdw5, spdy5
imperfective spd, spdy, spdw5
spd, spdj6, spdy6
spd, spdw5
prospective spd, spdtj7
spdtj4, spdt4

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.

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References

  • spd (lemma ID 500142)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 108.2–110.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 223–224