wr

See also: WR, ŵr, and -wr

Abinomn

Noun

wr

1. tree

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Egyptian

Etymology

perfective active participle of wrr (“to be great”)

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈwuːɾaw/ → /ˈwuːɾaw/ → /weːɾ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwuːɾaw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwuːɾaw/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /weːɾ/

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

Adjective

1. big, large
2. great, important
3. (in titles) chief, main
4. (interrogative) how much?

Inflection

Declension of wr (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	wr	wrt
dual	wrwj	wrtj
plural	wrw	wrwt1, wrt2
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. 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.

Synonyms

• ꜥꜣ

Antonyms

• nḏs
• šrj
• ktj

Derived terms

• wꜣḏ-wr
• wr-mꜣw
• wrt
• pẖr-wr
• ptḥ-wr
• mr-wr
• tꜣ-wr

 

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲟⲩⲏⲣ (ouēr)

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

Inflection

Declension of wr (masculine)

singular	wr
dual	wrwj
plural	wrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wr  

wr

Adverb

1. much

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
• 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

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Middle English

Determiner

wr

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

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Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːr/

Noun

wr

1. Soft mutation of gwr.