As a word for birds in general, ꜣpd is found contrasted against words for fish, beetles, etc. In Late Egyptian the word is commonly used in similes for helplessness, wherein people are likened to captured or bound birds.[2]
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.
m ḥrw r pr.k wsjr […] pꜣ kꜣ-wr nbt-nḏmnḏm ꜣpd.k snj.k ꜣst ḫrs.k stwtj jrj [ḥꜥw.s] ḥpt.s tw nn ḥr.k r.s
Don’t go far from your house, Osiris. […] O Great Bull, Lord of Sexual Pleasure! Hurry to?/Copulate with? your sister Isis, drive out the pain-substance attached to [her body]: she will embrace you, you won’t draw away from her.
Faulkner, Raymond (1952) “ꜣpd = ‘duck’” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 38, p. 128
^ A. M. Blackman, The Rock Tombs of Meir, Vol. 1, pl. 2
^ Grapow, Hermann (1924) Die bildlichen Ausdrücke des Aegyptischen: vom Denken und Dichten einer altorientalischen Sprache, page 91
^ Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel (2017) Representing Foreign Sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD, Leuven, Salamanca, page 665
^ Lepsius, Karl Richard (1849–1859) Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, Tafelwerke, Abtheilung III, Band VII, plate 227