spd

See also: SPD

Translingual

Symbol

spd

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Saep.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Saep terms

English

Noun

spd

1. Abbreviation of speed.

Anagrams

• DPS, DPs, DSP, PDS, PDs, PSD, SDP

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛpɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: seped

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) sharp, to have a sharp point
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.2–1.3:

     spd dsw r th-mtn nn ḥn nj js ḥr zp.f

     Sharp are the knives against one who transgresses the path; there is no haste except at its proper time.

2. (intransitive) to be(come) pointy, to have a pointy shape
3. (transitive) to sharpen [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]
4. (intransitive, of people or body parts) to be(come) adept, skilful, effective
5. (intransitive, of speech, ideas, laws, etc.) to be(come) effective

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural spd spdw, spd spdt spd spd ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 spd ḥr spd m spd r spd suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect spd.n consecutive spd.jn terminative spdt perfective3 spd obligative1 spd.ḫr imperfective spd prospective3 spd potentialis1 spd.kꜣ subjunctive spd verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect spd.n — — perfective spd spd spd, spdw5, spdy5 imperfective spd, spdy, spdw5 spd, spdj6, spdy6 spd, spdw5 prospective spd, spdtj7 spdtj4, spdt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of spd  

spd	spd	spd	spd	spt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Late Period]

Derived terms

• spdt
• sspd

References

• “spd (lemma ID 500142)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 108.2–110.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 223–224