wḏꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛd͡ʒɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wedja

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) intact, sound, unhurt, in good condition
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 76–80:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n rdj.f wj m r(ꜣ).f jt.f wj r st.f nt snḏm wꜣḥ.f wj nn dmjt.j wḏꜣ.kw nn jtt jm.j

     Then he put me in his mouth, took me to his place of residence, and set me down without touching me, intact, without anything taken from me.

   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 1.1:

     wḏꜣ snḏw ḥz mt

     The deferential man is sound; the scrupulous man is honored.

2. (intransitive, with r or ḥr) to be(come) kept safe from, to be preserved in the face of (something evil)
3. (intransitive, of matters, affairs, states) to be(come) in a good state or condition
4. (intransitive, of roads) to be(come) passable, traversable
5. (intransitive, mathematics) to be(come) left over in a calculation
6. (transitive) to leave intact or sound

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣ  

wḏꜣ	wḏꜣ
	abbreviation

Derived terms

Descendants

• Demotic: wḏꜣ
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲩϫⲉⲓ (oučei), ⲟⲩϫⲉⲉⲓ (oučeei), ⲟⲩϫⲉⲓⲧⲉ (oučeite)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ (oučai)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲟⲩϫⲉⲓ (oučei), ⲟⲩϫⲉⲉⲓ (oučeei), ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ (oučai)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲟⲩϫⲉⲉⲓ (oučeei)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ (oučai), ⲟⲩϫϩⲁⲓ (oučhai)

Noun

 m

1. (uncountable) soundness, well-being

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

Descendants

See under the verb above.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛd͡ʒɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wedja

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to go in procession, to proceed ceremoniously (+ r: to (a place))
2. (intransitive) to go in general, to proceed, to make one’s way (+ r: to (a place); + n: to (a person); + ḥr: on (a path), through (a door))
3. (intransitive) to pass on, to go along
4. (intransitive, euphemistic) to pass on, to pass away, to die
5. (intransitive, of the sun) to set
6. (intransitive, imperative) come in!
7. (transitive) to enter (a place)
8. (intransitive, with following r and infinitive) to go to do (something)

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣ  

wḏꜣ

Derived terms

• šms wḏꜣ

Descendants

• Demotic: wṱ
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲓⲧⲉ (ouite)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲃⲓϯ (biti)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲧⲓ (oueiti)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲧⲉ (oueite), ⲟⲩⲓⲧⲉ (ouite), ⲟⲩⲉⲉⲧⲉ (oueete), ⲃⲓⲧⲉ (bite)

References

• “wḏꜣ (lemma ID 52090)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “wḏꜣ (lemma ID 52100)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “wḏꜣ (lemma ID 52130)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 399.14–401.8, 403.2–403.19
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 74–75
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 173, 189, 191.