ꜥnt

Egyptian

Etymology 1

From ꜥnn (“to turn back”) +‎ -t.

a
n		 t
D51

Pronunciation
 
  • (senses ‘claw, nail’ and ‘adze’): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈʕiːnVt/ → /ˈʕiːnVʔ/ → /ˈʕiːna/ → /ˈʕiːnə/

Noun
a
n		 t
D51

 f

  1. claw
  2. nail, fingernail, toenail
    irD51
    t Z1    		 N33A
     ― jrj ꜥnwt ― to trim and prepare one’s nails, to do one’s nails
  3. talon of a bird
  4. thumb [Medical papyri and Late Period]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)
singular ꜥnt
dual ꜥntj
plural ꜥnwt
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnt  
a
n
t		 U20
D51
t Z1
a
n		 nw
W		 D51
F51
W10
nw		 D51
F51
ꜥnt ꜥnt ꜥnw ꜥnw
[Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
Descendants
  • Demotic: ꜥn.t, ꜥne.t

Noun
a
n		 t
U20

 f

  1. carpenter’s adze [Middle and New Kingdoms]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)
singular ꜥnt
dual ꜥntj
plural ꜥnwt
Descendants
a
n		 t
S21

Noun
a
n		 t
S21

 f

  1. (jewelry) ring [18th Dynasty]
  2. eyelet on a piece of jewelry [18th Dynasty]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)
singular ꜥnt
dual ꜥntj
plural ꜥnwt
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnt  
a
n		 t
V9
ꜥnt
Derived terms
  • ꜥnt-ds

Noun
a
n
t ra

 f

  1. the smallest unit of time, smaller than a ḥꜣt; approximately a tierce [Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)
singular ꜥnt
dual ꜥntj
plural ꜥnwt
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnt  
D6
n
t ra
D10Z1
ra
ꜥnt ꜥnt

Etymology 2

From ꜥnj (“to be beautiful, pleasant, kind”) +‎ -t, thus ‘the beautiful/pleasant/kind one’.

Pronunciation

Noun
a
n		 D6
t H8

 f

  1. an epithet of Hathor [Greco-Roman Period]

References
  • “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38130)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38120)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38140)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38150)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38160)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 187.17–188.11, 190.19–190.21
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43
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