wrrt

Egyptian

Etymology

From wrr (“to be great”) +‎ -t (“feminine ending”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /wVˈɾiɾjVt/ → /wVˈɾiʔjVʔ/ → /wəˈɾeʔja/ → /wəˈɾeʔjə/

Proper noun
wr
r		 r
t		 S1

 f

  1. the White Crown
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 18–19:
      pr
      r
      D54      		 n
      f
      S10      		 HwmwDn
      gb      		 bO43
      p      		 D40
      n
      f      		 HqAt Z1
      N21
      N21      		 HDtmn
      n
      Y1      		 tiimtp Z1
      f
      pr.n.f mḏḥ.w m wḏ n(j) gbb šzp.n.f ḥqꜣt jdbwj wrrt mn.tj m tp.f
      He came forth wreathed at the command of Geb, having received the rulership of the Two Riverbanks (Egypt), the White Crown fixed upon his head.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrrt  
S1
wr
r		 r
t		 S2
wr
r		 r
t		 S5
wr
r		 r
t		 S6
wr
r		 tS2
S1wr t
r
r		 S3
wrrt wrrt wrrt wrrt wrt wrrt
[since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [19th Dynasty]

Noun
wr
r		 r
t Z5		 I12

 f

  1. uraeus [since the 18th Dynasty]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrrt  
wr
r
r		 t
H8		 I12
wrrt
[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants
  • → Ancient Greek: οὐραῖος (ouraîos)

References
  • “wrr.t (lemma ID 47920)”, 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
  • “Wrr.t (lemma ID 47930)”, 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 333.11–333.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 113.
  1. Gundacker, Roman (2011) “On the Etymology of the Egyptian Crown Name mrsw.t*: An “Irregular” Subgroup of m-Prefix Formations” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 19, page 37
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