wdfj

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

Verb

wd
f		 N31

 4ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) late, to delay (+ m: to delay in (doing something))
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 67–73:
      iwwp
      p      		 Z10
      n      		 fr Z1
      f      		 rA1iWA1Hr Z1 X
      t Z1      		 A1mbbAAHD53Y2
      f
      D&d fn&A1 nm&a inin
      t      		 wzp y
      n      		 D&z nDsA1nm&a inin
      t      		 w
      irwd
      f      		 G38D54
      k      		 mD&d n&A1 inin
      t      		 wriw
      N23 Z1      		 p
      n
      r
      a      		 A1r
      x      		 Y2
      k      		 twiwkmz
      z      		 Q7xpr
      r&t      		 mn
      t y      		 D35U2
      ir      		 At
      f
      jw wp.n.f r(ꜣ).f r.j jw.j ḥr ẖt.j m bꜣḥ.f ḏd.f n.j (j)n-mj jn tw zpwj snwj nḏs (j)n-mj jn tw jr wdf.k m ḏd n.j jn tw r jw pn rḏj.j rḫ.k tw jw.k m ss⟨f⟩ ḫpr.t(j) m ntj nj mꜣ.t(w).f
      He opened his mouth at me while I was on my belly before him, saying to me:
      ―Who brought you, who brought you, little man? Who brought you? If you delay in telling me who brought you to this island, I will make you know yourself as ashes, transformed into that which cannot be seen.

Inflection

Conjugation of wdfj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: wdf
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wdft, wdfj
 wdfw, wdfyw, wdf
 wdft, wdfwt, wdfyt
 wdf
 wdf, wdfy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wdf8
 ḥr wdft, ḥr wdfj
 m wdft, ḥr wdfj
 r wdft, ḥr wdfj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect wdf.n
 consecutive wdf.jn
terminative wdft
perfective3 wdf
 obligative1 wdf.ḫr
imperfective wdf, wdfy
prospective3 wdfw, wdf, wdfy
 potentialis1 wdf.kꜣ
subjunctive wdf, wdfy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect wdf.n
 — —
perfective wdfw1, wdfy, wdf
 wdf
 wdfy, wdf
imperfective wdf, wdfy, wdfw5
 wdf, wdfj6, wdfy6
 wdf, wdfw5
prospective wdfw1, wdfy, wdf, wdftj7
 wdfwtj1 4, wdftj4, wdft4
  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.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wdfj  
wd
f		 G38D54
wdf

Derived terms

References

  • James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 313.
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