Egyptian
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Pronunciation
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- (unequal) hour (one twelfth of the period of daylight or one twelfth of the period of night) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- nonspecific span of time; moment, time, hour
- hourly duties or service, work to be performed regularly [since the Old Kingdom]
Inflection
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Declension of wnwt (feminine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt
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in the sense ‘duties’
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Descendants
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- (collective) hourly staff, workers assigned duties to be performed regularly [since the Middle Kingdom]
- (collective) in particular, the hourly staff or hour-priesthood of a temple
- Synonym: wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt
The forms given above under the senses for ‘hour’ etc. can also be used with this meaning.
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References
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- “wnw.t (lemma ID 46420)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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
- “wnw.t (lemma ID 46430)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], 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[3], 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