sdwḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛduːx/
  • Conventional anglicization: sedukh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive) to embalm

Inflection

Conjugation of sdwḫ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: sdwḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sdwḫ	sdwḫw, sdwḫ	sdwḫt	sdwḫ	sdwḫ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sdwḫ.n	sdwḫw, sdwḫ	consecutive	sdwḫ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sdwḫt
perfective3	sdwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sdwḫ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sdwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sdwḫw, sdwḫ	sdwḫw, sdwḫ	potentialis1	sdwḫ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sdwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sdwḫ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sdwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	sdwḫ	sdwḫ, sdwḫw5, sdwḫy5
imperfective	sdwḫ, sdwḫy, sdwḫw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sdwḫ, sdwḫj6, sdwḫy6	sdwḫ, sdwḫw5
prospective	sdwḫ, sdwḫtj7	—	sdwḫwtj1 4, sdwḫtj4, sdwḫt4
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 sdwḫ  

sdwḫ

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 368.6–368.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 256