wn

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See also: WN, Wn, wn', and .wn

English

wn

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of one.

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

Verb

wnn
O31

 2-lit.

  1. (transitive) to open (a door)
    • c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, line 9:
      wn
      n      		 O31
      a      		 n
      N33A      		 n
      k      		 O31
      O31      		 mbntyw
      E35
      N33A
      wn.n n.k ꜥꜣwj m bntjw
      We open the double doors to you as baboons.
  2. (intransitive) to open up, to permit access to oneself, to open the door (+ n: for (someone))
  3. (transitive) to open (a container)
  4. (transitive, rare) to unlatch (a bolt or latch)
  5. (transitive) to open the way into (a place), to open up, to make (a building, fortress, city, sanctum, tomb, cavern, land, the sky, the underworld, etc.) freely accessible
  6. (transitive) to open (a path), to make traversable
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:
      N31
      t Z1      		 z
      S
      Z9 D54      		 tiim&a T
      n
      nw      		 wZ2ss
      H_SPACE      		 wn
      O31
      wꜣt zš.tj mṯnw wn(.w)
      The road is traversable, the paths are open.
  7. (transitive) to spread wide, to open (one’s hands, arms, etc.)
  8. (transitive) to open (one’s eyes, nose, mouth, etc.)
  9. (transitive) to stretch (one’s legs) out for walking
  10. (transitive, Late Egyptian) to let (someone) out of confinement, to release
  11. (transitive, Late Egyptian, of thieves) to break in to, to forcibly open (a building)
  12. (reflexive) to become open, to open
Inflection
Conjugation of wn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: wn, geminated stem: wnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wn
 wnw, wn
 wnt
 wn, j.wn
 wn, j.wn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wn
 ḥr wn
 m wn
 r wn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect wn.n
 wnw, wn
 consecutive wn.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative wnt
perfective3 wn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 wn.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective wn, j.wn1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 wn
 wnn
 potentialis1 wn.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive wn, j.wn1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect wn.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective wn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 wn
 wnn, wnnj6, wn2, wnw2 5, wny2 5
imperfective j.wn1, wn, wny, wnw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 j.wn1, j.wnw1 5, wn, wnj6, wny6
 wn, wnw5
prospective wn, wntj7
 — wntj4, wnt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  
M42
n		 O31
wn
n		 O31
D40
O31
O31
D40
wn wn wn wn
abbreviation abbreviation
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Demotic: wn
See also

Noun

wn
n		 O31
D40

 m

  1. (Late Egyptian) opening of a door
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  
O31
D40
wn
abbreviation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

wn
n		 nDs

 m

  1. fault, blame
Inflection
Declension of wn (masculine)
singular wn
dual wnwj
plural wnw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  
M42
n		 nDs
wn

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

wnZ1

 m

  1. desert hare

Etymology 4

Pronoun

Wn
Z2

 pl 1. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

  1. Late Egyptian variant of n (“we”)
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  
wNZ3
wn

References

  • “wn (lemma ID 46060)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “wn (lemma ID 46070)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “wn (lemma ID 46080)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “wn (lemma ID 46110)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “wn (lemma ID 46020)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 307.9, 311.2–312.12, 314.7–314.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 60–61
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 169, 295, 298.
  • Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 77
  1. ^ Alternatively, taking
    m
    as imperative (j)m: ‘…the place of the calm man is broad. Don’t speak!’ The first clause can also be interpreted in two different ways. If
    n
    represents the preposition n, then ‘The tent is open to the quiet man’; but if it represents the genitival adjective n(j), then ‘The tent of the quiet man is open’. The first interpretation is more appealing semantically, but the second is favored by parallelism with the following clause.
  2. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 16

Spanish

Adjective

wn (feminine wna, masculine plural wnes, feminine plural wnas) (abbreviation)

  1. (Chile, informal, Internet slang, text messaging) Contraction of huevón.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

wn

  1. Soft mutation of gwn.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gwn wn ngwn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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