wnwt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnuːt/
- Conventional anglicization: wenut

Noun

f

(unequal) hour (one twelfth of the period of daylight or one twelfth of the period of night) [since the Pyramid Texts]
moment, time

Inflection

Declension of wnwt (feminine)

singular	wnwt
dual	wnwtj
plural	wnwwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt

N14

X1 [t]

N14

X1 [t]

wnwt

wnwt

Derived terms

jmy wnwt (“astronomer”)
m wnwt (“intermittently”)
n wnwt (“in a moment”)
šps wnwt bjnt (“to have a bad time”)
wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr

Descendants

Demotic: wnwt
- Coptic: ⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩ (ounou)

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 107.
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83

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