swrd

Egyptian

s- (causative prefix) +‎ wrḏ (“to be(come) weary”). A spelling with ḏ is unattested.

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛwɛrɛd/
- Conventional anglicization: sewered

caus. 3-lit.

(transitive) to weary, to exhaust (someone) [Middle Kingdom]
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 20–21:
  
  jr r.k m ḫrt-jb.k swrd pw ḏd n.k
  Well, do whatever you want (literally, “as your desire”). It’s tiring to talk to you.

Conjugation of swrd (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: swrd

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
swrd	swrdw, swrd	swrdt	swrd	swrd

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	swrd.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	swrd	active + .tj¹, .tw²	swrd	swrd, swrdw⁵, swrdy⁵
imperfective	swrd, swrdy, swrdw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	swrd, swrdj⁶, swrdy⁶	swrd, swrdw⁵
prospective	swrd, swrdtj⁷	—	swrdwtj^{1 4}, swrdtj⁴, swrdt⁴
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 swrd

swrd

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 71.4
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 217

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