fdq

fdq

Egyptian

FWOTD – 17 September 2020

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛdɛk/
  • Conventional anglicization: fedeq

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to cut up, to divide, to cut apart into smaller pieces
   • c. 2112–2063 BCE (reign of Intef II), Funerary stele of Rediu-Khnum from his tomb at Dendera (UE 6) (Cairo CG 20543), line A13–A14:[1][2]

     srwd.n(.j) gmt.n(.j) wzṯ(.w) ṯz.n(.j) gmt.n(.j) fdq(.w) mḥ.n(.j) gmt.n(.j) jꜣṯ(.w)

     I made firm what I found dilapidated; I joined together what I found cut apart; I replenished what I found injured.

2. (transitive) to sever, to cut off (roots or body parts)
3. (transitive) to lay waste, to devastate (lands)
4. (transitive) to extirpate, to wipe out (abstract things: lies, wrongs, names, etc.)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
fdq	fdqw, fdq	fdqt	fdq	fdq

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	fdq.n	fdqw, fdq	consecutive	fdq.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	fdqt
perfective3	fdq	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	fdq.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	fdq	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	fdq	fdqq	potentialis1	fdq.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	fdq	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	fdq.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	fdq	active + .tj1, .tw2	fdq	fdq, fdqw5, fdqy5
imperfective	fdq, fdqy, fdqw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	fdq, fdqj6, fdqy6	fdq, fdqw5
prospective	fdq, fdqtj7	—	fdqtj4, fdqt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of fdq  

fdq

Noun

 m

1. piece, slice, portion

Inflection

Declension of fdq (masculine)

singular	fdq
dual	fdqwj
plural	fdqw

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 583.6–583.18
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99

1. González León, Daniel (2018) “La estela de Rediukhnum de Dendera y la reorganización administrativa del Estado egipcio a finales del III milenio a.C.” in Revista Del Instituto De Historia Antigua Oriental, volume 19, pages 49–79
2. Lichtheim, Miriam (1988) Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies Chiefly of the Middle Kingdom: A Study and an Anthology, pages 42–46 and plate I