nwyt
Egyptian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nuːiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: nuyt
Noun
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- wave or swell of water
- c. 2000–1900 BCE Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115), lines 34–36:
- fꜣ.t(w) ṯꜣw jr.f wḥmyt nwyt jm.f nt ḫmnw mḥ
- The wind was lifted again and again (lit. lifted, it making repetition), with a wave in it of eight cubits.
- c. 2000–1900 BCE Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115), lines 34–36: