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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
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- (unequal) hour (one twelfth of the period of daylight or one twelfth of the period of night)
c. 1401 BCE,
Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, line 16:
- wnwt pw {pt}tpt nt grḥ
- It is the first hour of the night.
- nonspecific span of time; moment, time, hour
- hourly duties or service, work to be performed regularly
Inflection
Declension of wnwt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt
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in the sense ‘duties’
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Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
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- (collective) hourly staff, workers assigned duties to be performed regularly
- (collective) in particular, the hourly staff or hour-priesthood of a temple
- Synonym: wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt
The forms given above under the senses for ‘hour’ etc. can also be used with this meaning.
Derived terms
References
- “wnw.t (lemma ID 46420)” and “wnw.t (lemma ID 46430)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 316.1–317.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 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 107, 459.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83
