spd

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English

Noun

spd

  1. Abbreviation of speed.

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

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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:
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      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

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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