wdfj
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈwitʼfit/ → /ˈwitʼfiʔ/ → /ˈwetʼfa/ → /ˈwetʼfə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛdɛfi/
- Conventional anglicization: wedefi
Verb
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4ae inf.
- (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:
- 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
editConjugation of wdfj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: wdf
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
wdft, wdfj |
wdfw, wdfyw, wdf |
wdft, wdfwt, wdfyt |
wdf |
wdf, wdfy |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
wdf8 |
ḥr wdft, ḥr wdfj |
m wdft, ḥr wdfj |
r wdft, ḥr wdfj |
suffix conjugation | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |
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Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of wdfj
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 313.