wrḏ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) weary or tired, to tire
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to die
    • c. 1900 BCE – 1839 BCE, Coffin Texts, version B1C (coffin of Sepi III, Cairo CG 28083) spell 755:[1]







      wrḏ ꜥwt m ws(j)r nj wrḏ zpwj snwj nj ḥwꜣ.sn ꜣd.sn nj [bn.sn nj][2] jr mw ḏw
      The limbs in Osiris are weary (i.e. dead), but won’t be weary, won’t be weary, they won’t putrefy or decay, [they] won’t [swell up, won’t] make foul fluid (literally, “evil water”).

Inflection
Conjugation of wrḏ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wrḏ, geminated stem: wrḏḏ
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wrḏ
 wrḏw, wrḏ
 wrḏt
 wrḏ
 wrḏ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wrḏ
 ḥr wrḏ
 m wrḏ
 r wrḏ
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect wrḏ.n
 consecutive wrḏ.jn
terminative wrḏt
perfective3 wrḏ
 obligative1 wrḏ.ḫr
imperfective wrḏ
prospective3 wrḏ
 potentialis1 wrḏ.kꜣ
subjunctive wrḏ
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect wrḏ.n
 — —
perfective wrḏ
 wrḏ
 wrḏ, wrḏw5, wrḏy5
imperfective wrḏ, wrḏy, wrḏw5
 wrḏ, wrḏj6, wrḏy6
 wrḏ, wrḏw5
prospective wrḏ, wrḏtj7
 wrḏtj4, wrḏt4
  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 wrḏ  
wrd

Derived terms

References
  1. de Buck, Adriaan (1956) The Egyptian Coffin Texts, volume VI, page 384 i–l
  2. Faulkner, Raymond (1977) The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, volume 2, pages 288–289
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