wnn-nfr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 November 2013

Etymology

wnn (“(one who) continually exists”) +‎ nfr (“to be good, perfect, beautiful”) +‎ (.w) (third-person masculine stative ending), thus literally ‘one who continually exists in being good/perfect/beautiful’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnɛn nɛfɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: wenen-nefer

Proper noun

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1. an epithet or alternative name for the god Osiris.
2. a male given name, Wenennefer

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnn-nfr  

wnn-nfr

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲃⲉⲛⲟϥⲉⲣ (benofer), ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲁϥⲣ (ouenafr) — Old Coptic, ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲟϥⲣⲉ (ouenofre) — Sahidic, ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲁⲃⲣⲉ (ouenabre) — Oxyrhynchite
  • → Arabic: نُوفِير (nūfīr), نُوفْر (nūfr)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ὀνούφριος (Onoúphrios), Ὀννῶφρις (Onnôphris)
    • Greek: Ονούφριος (Onoúfrios)
    • → Coptic: ⲟⲛⲛⲱⲫⲣⲓⲥ (onnōphris)
    • → Latin: Onuphrius
      • → English: Onuphrius
      • → Finnish: Nurhonen
      • Italian: Onofrio
      • → Lithuanian: Anùpras
      • → Polish: Onufry
      • Portuguese: Onofre
      • Spanish: Onofre
    • Romanian: Onufrie
    • → Russian: Онуфрий (Onufrij), Онуша (Onuša)
• → Arabic: ابو نفر (ʔabū nufir), ابو نوفر (ʔabū nūfir), نوفير (nūfir)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 251, 459.