jdn

See also: JDN

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /idɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: iden

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to serve in place of (someone), to represent or replace; to be a lieutenant, deputy, or proxy for
2. (transitive, with st as object) to take (someone’s place), to serve in (someone’s role or position)
3. (transitive) to govern, to administer
4. (transitive, figuratively) to serve as (something), to take the role of (something)

Inflection

Conjugation of jdn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jdn, geminated stem: jdnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jdn	jdnw, jdn	jdnt	jdn	jdn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jdn	ḥr jdn	m jdn	r jdn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jdn.n	jdnw, jdn	consecutive	jdn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jdnt
perfective3	jdn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jdn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jdn	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jdn	jdnn	potentialis1	jdn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jdn	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jdn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jdn	active + .tj1, .tw2	jdn	jdn, jdnw5, jdny5
imperfective	jdn, jdny, jdnw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	jdn, jdnj6, jdny6	jdn, jdnw5
prospective	jdn, jdntj7	—	jdntj4, jdnt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jdn  

jdn	jtnw
[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Noun

 m

1. (rare) ear

Inflection

Declension of jdn (masculine)

singular	jdn
dual	jdnwj
plural	jdnw

References

• “jdn (lemma ID 34080)” and “jdn (lemma ID 34070)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 154.1–154.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 35