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Egyptian
Etymology
wnwt (“hour, hourly duties, hourly staff”) + ḥwt-nṯr (“temple”). The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- (collective) the hourly staff or hour-priesthood of a temple
- Synonym: wnwt
Usage notes
The exact nature of this body of priests is debated.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr
References
- “wnw.t-ḥw.t-nṯr (lemma ID 550054)”, 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, page 317.8
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 274, 374.
