jfdt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jfdw (“four”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ifdɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ifdet

Noun

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1. tetrad, foursome, quartet

   (as an offering to the dead) ― jfdt nt dpwt ― a foursome of dpt-bread loaves [Middle Kingdom]

   (as an offering to the dead) ― jfdt nt pznw ― a foursome of pzn-bread loaves [Middle Kingdom]

2. four-day period [Pyramid Texts]
3. one’s four legs, all fours [New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of jfdt (feminine)

singular	jfdt
dual	jfdtj
plural	jfdwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jfdt  

jfdt	jfdt	jfd
[Pyramid Texts]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]
in sense ‘four day period’	in sense ‘four legs’

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: -ⲉϥⲧⲉ (-efte)
• Fayyumic Coptic: -ⲏⲃⲧⲓ (-ēbti)
• Lycopolitan Coptic: -ⲉϥⲧⲉ (-efte)
• Sahidic Coptic: -ⲁϥⲧⲉ (-afte)

References

• “jfd.t (lemma ID 24620)”, 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 71.5–71.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 17