wnn-nfr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 November 2013

Etymology

wnn (“(one who) continually exists”) +‎ nfr (“to be good, perfect, beautiful”) +‎ (.w) (third-person masculine stative ending), thus literally ‘one who continually exists in being good/perfect/beautiful’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnɛn nɛfɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: wenen-nefer

Proper noun

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an epithet or alternative name for the god Osiris.
A male given name, Wenennefer.

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: Ὀνούφριος (Onoúphrios)
- → English: Onuphrius
- Greek: Ονούφριος (Onoúfrios)
- → Italian: Onofrio
- → Russian: Онуфрий (Onufrij)
- → Spanish: Onofre
- → Portuguese: Onofre
→ Arabic: ابو نفر‎ (ʾabū nufir), ابو نوفر‎ (ʾabū nūfir), نوفير‎ (nūfir)

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251.

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