wr

See also: WR, ŵr, -wr, and w****r

Abinomn

Noun

wr

1. tree

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈwuːɾVj/ → /ˈwuːɾVj/ → /wuːɾə/ → /weːɾ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwuːɾVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwuːɾVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /wuːɾə/
• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /weːɾ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: wer

Adjective

1. perfective active participle of wrr: big, great, important, chief

   Synonym: ꜥꜣ

2. (interrogative) how much?

Inflection

Declension of wr (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	wr	wrt
dual	wrwj	wrtj
plural	wrw	wrwt1, wrt2

¹ Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
² From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr), ⲃⲏⲣ (bēr)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲗ (ouēl), ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr)
• Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr)
• Old Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr), ⲟⲩⲏⲏⲣ (ouēēr)

Noun

 m

1. greatness, importance
2. large amount or degree

Noun

 m

1. one who is important, great
   • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:

     ḏd.t(w) n.f jj.w m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw

     May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great ones of Abydos.

2. a chief or leader of a (generally foreign) group of people
   • c. 1208 – c. B.C.E., Merneptah Stele, line 26:

     wrw p(ꜣ)ḫd ḥr ḏd šꜣrm

     The overthrown princes are saying ‘Peace!’ (lit. ‘Shalom!’)

Inflection

Declension of wr (masculine)

singular	wr
dual	wrwj
plural	wrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wr  

wr	wr	wr

Adverb

1. much, very

See also

• 𓅨

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 326–327.19, 328.15–329.6, 329.15–329.18, 330.7–330.11
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 63, 72, 95, 281.
• Hoch, James (1997), Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 54

Middle English

Determiner

wr

1. alternative form of oure (“our”)

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːr/

Noun

wr

1. soft mutation of gwr