wnwt

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /wVˈnaːwat/ → /wVˈnaːjaʔ/ → /wəˈnaːʔə/ → /wəˈnoːʔ/

Noun
wn
n		 nw
t		 N14

 f

  1. (unequal) hour (one twelfth of the period of daylight or one twelfth of the period of night) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. nonspecific span of time; moment, time, hour
  3. hourly duties or service, work to be performed regularly [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection
Declension of wnwt (feminine)
singular wnwt
dual wnwtj
plural wnwwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt  
N14t
N5
N14
t Z1
wn
n		 nw
t		 N14N5
wn
n		 nw
t		 N14N5
Z1
wn
n		 nw
t		 N14
Y1
wnwt wnwt wnwt wnwt wnwt
in the sense ‘duties’

Derived terms
  • jmj wnwt (“astronomer”)
  • m wnwt (“intermittently”)
  • n wnwt (“in a moment”)
  • šps wnwt bjnt (“to have a bad time”)

Descendants
  • Demotic: wnwt

Noun
wn
n		 nw
t		 N14A1Z3

 m

  1. (collective) hourly staff, workers assigned duties to be performed regularly [since the Middle Kingdom]
  2. (collective) in particular, the hourly staff or hour-priesthood of a temple
    Synonym: wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt  
wn
n		 t
N14		 A1
Z2ss
N14
t Z1		 A1
Z2ss
wnwt wnwt

The forms given above under the senses for ‘hour’ etc. can also be used with this meaning.

Derived terms

References
  • “wnw.t (lemma ID 46420)”, 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
  • “wnw.t (lemma ID 46430)”, 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 316.1–317.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 61
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 107, 459.
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83
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