wnt
Egyptian
Etymology 1
From the terminative of wnn (“to exist”).
Particle
proclitic
- serves as a complementizer to convert a verbal or nonverbal sentence with realis mood into a subordinated noun clause; that
Usage notes
When followed by a clause with a pronominal subject and adverbial predicate, the subject takes the form of a suffix pronoun attached to wnt.
Subordinate complement clauses are typically unmarked if their mood is irrealis and marked with ntt, wnt, or jwt only if modally realis.
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnt
wnt | wnt |
Synonyms
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 193, 198, 317 page 184, 193, 198, 317.
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Uljas, Sami (2007) The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses: A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language
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