wnjs

Egyptian

Etymology

Uncertain. Like many fifth-dynasty pharaohs’ birth names, this name may simply be a diminutive without any meaning of its own. Alternatively, some authors[1] have tentatively proposed to read it as wn-js, from a form of wnn (“to exist”) + js (“intensifying particle”), thus meaning ‘Who exists indeed’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun
wn
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  1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Unas, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty.

References
  • “Wnjs (lemma ID 800001)”, 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
  • Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 41
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 55, 183
  1. Scheele-Schweitzer, Katrin (2007). “Zu den Königsnamen der 5. und 6. Dynastie” in Göttinger Miszellen. Göttingen: Universität der Göttingen, Seminar für Agyptologie und Koptologie. 215: 91–94. ISSN 0344-385X
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