wnjs

Egyptian

Etymology

Uncertain. Like many fifth-dynasty pharaohs’ birth names, this name may simply be a diminutive without any meaning of its own. Alternatively, some authors have tentatively proposed to read it as wn-js, from a form of wnn (“to exist”) + js (“intensifying particle”), thus meaning ‘Who exists indeed’.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈwanjas/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnis/
  • Conventional anglicization: wenis

Proper noun

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1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Unas, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty.

References

• “Wnjs (lemma ID 800001)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 41
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 55, 183