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rd

Abbreviation of road.
Abbreviation of rad (“unit of measure”).
(knitting, firearms) Abbreviation of round.

D.R., DR, Dr, Dr., dr, dr.

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ɾitʼ/ → /ɾitʼ/ → /ɾetʼ/ → /ɾetʼ/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛd/
- Conventional anglicization: red

m

foot, leg
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 45–46:
  ꜥḥꜥ.n dwn.n.j rdwj.j r rḫ djt.j m r(ꜣ).j
  Then I stretched out my legs to learn what I might put in my mouth.

Declension of rd (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rd

Demotic: rt
- Coptic:
  - ⲣⲁⲧ⸗ (rat⸗) (Sahidic, Bohairic)
  - ⲗⲉⲧ⸗ (let⸗) (Fayyumic)
  - ⲣⲉⲧ⸗ (ret⸗) (Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, Fayyumic, Old Coptic)
  - ⲣⲉⲉⲧ⸗ (reet⸗) (Akhmimic)

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaːtʼuw/ → /ˈɾaːtʼuw/ → /ˈɾaːtʼə/ → /ˈɾoːtʼ/^[1]

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛd/
- Conventional anglicization: red

m

bud, shoot

Declension of rd (masculine u-stem)

2-lit.

(intransitive) to grow

Conjugation of rd (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: rd, geminated stem: rdd

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
rd	rdw, rd	rdt	rd, j.rd	rd, j.rd

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	rd.n	consecutive	rd.jn
terminative	rdt	consecutive	rd.jn
perfective³	rd	obligative¹	rd.ḫr
imperfective	rd, j.rd¹	obligative¹	rd.ḫr
prospective³	rd	potentialis¹	rd.kꜣ
subjunctive	rd, j.rd¹	potentialis¹	rd.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	rd.n	—	—
perfective	rd	rd	rdd, rddj⁶, rd², rdw^{2 5}, rdy^{2 5}
imperfective	j.rd¹, rd, rdy, rdw⁵	j.rd¹, j.rdw^{1 5}, rd, rdj⁶, rdy⁶	rd, rdw⁵
prospective	rd, rdtj⁷	rdtj⁴, rdt⁴
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 rd

rwḏ (“prosper”)

Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 256, 277.

^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58