nwy

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nuːiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: nuy

Noun

 m

1. (uncountable) water
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 83–86:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n ḏd.n.f n.j (j)n-mj jn tw zpwj snwj nḏs (j)n-mj jn tw r jw pn n(j) wꜣḏ-wr ntj gs(wj).fj m nwy

     Then he said to me,
     ―Who brought you, who brought you, little man? Who brought you to this island of the sea, both of whose sides are in the water?

Related terms

(Possibly:)

• nnw

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 149.

Middle English

Noun

nwy

1. Alternative form of noy

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /nuːɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /nʊi̯/
• Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

Etymology 1

From a conjectured element *ny- (“spreading”) + gwy (“fluid”).

Noun

nwy m (plural nwyon, not mutable)

1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

Derived terms

• nwy dagrau m (“tear gas”)
• nwy naturiol m (“natural gas”)
• nwyeiddio (“gasify”, verb)
• nwyol (“gaseous”, adjective)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Numeral

nwy

1. Nasal mutation of dwy.

Mutation

References