spd

See also: SPD

English

Noun

spd

  1. Abbreviation of speed.

Anagrams

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
sp
d		 M44

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) sharp, to have a sharp point
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.2–1.3:
      spdM44Y1dsWT30
      Z2      		 rt
      h      		 rdD54m&a t
      n      		 T14G41nDsD35
      n      		 HHnn
      D54      		 D35isHrZ1z
      p      		 zp
      f
      spd dsw r th-mtn nn ḥn nj js ḥr zp.f
      Sharp are the knives against one who transgresses the path; there is no haste except at its proper time.
  2. (intransitive) to be(come) pointy, to have a pointy shape
  3. (transitive) to sharpen [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]
  4. (intransitive, of people or body parts) to be(come) adept, skilful, effective
  5. (intransitive, of speech, ideas, laws, etc.) to be(come) effective

Inflection
Conjugation of spd (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: spd, geminated stem: spdd
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
spd
 spdw, spd
 spdt
 spd
 spd
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
spd
 ḥr spd
 m spd
 r spd
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect spd.n
 consecutive spd.jn
terminative spdt
perfective3 spd
 obligative1 spd.ḫr
imperfective spd
prospective3 spd
 potentialis1 spd.kꜣ
subjunctive spd
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect spd.n
 — —
perfective spd
 spd
 spd, spdw5, spdy5
imperfective spd, spdy, spdw5
 spd, spdj6, spdy6
 spd, spdw5
prospective spd, spdtj7
 spdtj4, spdt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of spd  
sM44p
d
sM44d
sM44
sp
d		 M44
sp
t		 M44
spd spd spd spd spt
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [Late Period]

Derived terms

References
  • “spd (lemma ID 500142)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 108.2–110.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 223–224
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