mds

See also: MDs and M.D.s

English

mds

(stenoscript) Abbreviation of merchandise and related forms of that word (merchandising, merchandised, merchandiser, etc.)

Related to ds (“knife”).

3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
mds	mdsw, mds	mdst	mds	mds

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	mds.n	—	—
perfective	mds	mds	mds, mdsw⁵, mdsy⁵
imperfective	mds, mdsy, mdsw⁵	mds, mdsj⁶, mdsy⁶	mds, mdsw⁵
prospective	mds, mdstj⁷	mdstj⁴, mdst⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of mds

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[New Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 183.1–183.13
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 123

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