wnwt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 f

  1. (unequal) hour (one twelfth of the period of daylight or one twelfth of the period of night) [since the Pyramid Texts]
    • c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, line 16:



      wnwt pw {pt}tpt nt grḥ
      It is the first hour of the night.
  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  









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

 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  



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)” and “wnw.t (lemma ID 46430)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], 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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