wrḏ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛrɛd͡ʒ/
  • Conventional anglicization: weredj

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:

     wrḏ ꜥwt m ws(j)r nj wrḏ zpwj snwj nj ḥwꜣ.sn ꜣd.sn nj [bn.sn nj] 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
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 wrḏ  

wrd

Derived terms

• j.ḫm-wrḏ
• swrd

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 337.1–338.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 65