3-lit.
- (intransitive) to lie down
c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE,
Pyramid Texts of Unas — gable of the west wall of the burial chamber, line 4–5, spell 226.3:
[1]- tꜣ j.ꜥm n.k prt jm.k hjw sḏr zbn
- Earth, swallow up into yourself what has emerged from you! Hiu-serpent, lie down, crawl away!
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 41–45:
- jr.n.j ḫmtw hrw wꜥ.kw jb.j m snnw.j sḏr.kw m ẖnw n(j) kꜣp n(j) ḫt qnj.n.j šwyt
- I spent three days alone, my heart my only companion (literally, “my second”), lying inside a shelter of wood, having embraced the shadows.
- (intransitive) to go to bed for the night, to go to sleep
- c. 1944 BCE, (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184), lines 11–12:
- nj sḏr z ḥqr.w r dmj.j
- No one went to bed hungry in my district.
- (intransitive) to spend the night
This verb is often used with a following adverb clause introduced by a stative without a preceding subject; the subject of this stative is then ordinarily identical with the subject of sḏr.
Conjugation of sḏr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sḏr, geminated stem: sḏrr
infinitival forms
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imperative
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infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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sḏr
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sḏrw, sḏr
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sḏrt
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sḏr
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sḏr
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‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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sḏr
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ḥr sḏr
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m sḏr
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r sḏr
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suffix conjugation
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aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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aspect / mood
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active
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perfect
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sḏr.n
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consecutive
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sḏr.jn
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terminative
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sḏrt
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perfective3
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sḏr
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obligative1
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sḏr.ḫr
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imperfective
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sḏr
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prospective3
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sḏr
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potentialis1
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sḏr.kꜣ
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subjunctive
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sḏr
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verbal adjectives
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aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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active
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active
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passive
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perfect
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sḏr.n
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—
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—
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perfective
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sḏr
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sḏr
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sḏr, sḏrw5, sḏry5
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imperfective
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sḏr, sḏry, sḏrw5
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sḏr, sḏrj6, sḏry6
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sḏr, sḏrw5
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prospective
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sḏr, sḏrtj7
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sḏrtj4, sḏrt4
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- 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.
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m
- sleeper
Declension of sḏr (masculine)
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume I, Providence: Brown University, PT 226.3 (Pyr. 225c), W