wnwt

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Egyptian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /wVˈnaːwat//wVˈnaːjaʔ//wəˈnaːʔə//wəˈnoːʔ/

Noun[edit]

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 f

  1. (unequal) hour (one twelfth of the period of daylight or one twelfth of the period of night) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. nonspecific span of time; moment, time, hour
  3. hourly duties or service, work to be performed regularly [since the Old Kingdom]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Demotic: wnwt

Noun[edit]

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 m

  1. (collective) hourly staff, workers assigned duties to be performed regularly [since the Middle Kingdom]
  2. (collective) in particular, the hourly staff or hour-priesthood of a temple
    Synonym: wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr

Alternative forms[edit]

The forms given above under the senses for ‘hour’ etc. can also be used with this meaning.

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • wnw.t (lemma ID 46420)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
  • wnw.t (lemma ID 46430)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 316.1–317.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 61
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 107, 459.
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83