nwd

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nuːd/
  • Conventional anglicization: nud

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to deviate, to turn aside

Inflection

Conjugation of nwd (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: nwd, geminated stem: nwdd

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nwd	nwdw, nwd	nwdt	nwd	nwd

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nwd.n	consecutive	nwd.jn
terminative	nwdt
perfective3	nwd	obligative1	nwd.ḫr
imperfective	nwd
prospective3	nwd	potentialis1	nwd.kꜣ
subjunctive	nwd

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nwd.n	—	—
perfective	nwd	nwd	nwd, nwdw5, nwdy5
imperfective	nwd, nwdy, nwdw5	nwd, nwdj6, nwdy6	nwd, nwdw5
prospective	nwd, nwdtj7	nwdtj4, nwdt4
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.

Derived terms

• nwdw

 

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 192.