šfdw

Egyptian[edit]

Possibly from šfd (“to grasp”) +‎ -w.

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛfɛduː/
- Conventional anglicization: shefedu

m

roll of papyrus, scroll
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.4–2.5:
  
  ḏr.n ḏd.n.f n.sn jr ntt nbt m zẖꜣ ḥr pꜣ šfdw sḏm st mj ḏd.j st (j)m zn ḥꜣw ḥr šꜣꜣt
  In the end he said to them: As for everything in the writing on this scroll, heed it as I say it; don’t exceed what has been set down.

Declension of šfdw (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šfdw

šfdw

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 461.11–461.17
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 266