Egyptian
Etymology
From jfdw (“four”) + -t.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- 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]
- four-day period [Pyramid Texts]
- one’s four legs, all fours [New Kingdom]
Inflection
Declension of jfdt (feminine)
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jfdt
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| dual
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jfdtj
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| plural
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jfdwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jfdt
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| jfdt
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jfdt
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jfd
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[New Kingdom]
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[New Kingdom]
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| in sense ‘four day period’
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in sense ‘four legs’
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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