wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr

Egyptian

Etymology

wnwt (hour, hourly duties, hourly staff) + ḥwt-nṯr (temple). The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛnuːt huːt nɛt͡ʃɛr/
    • Conventional anglicization: wenut-hut-netjer

Noun

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  1. (collective) the hourly staff or hour-priesthood of a temple
    Synonym: wnwt

Usage notes

The exact nature of this body of priests is debated.

Alternative forms

References

  • wnw.t-ḥw.t-nṯr (lemma ID 550054)”, 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, page 317.8
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 274, 374.
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