wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr

Egyptian

Etymology

wnwt (“hour, hourly duties, hourly staff”) +‎ ḥwt-nṯr (“temple”). The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnuːt huːt nɛt͡ʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: wenut-hut-netjer

Noun

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1. (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 forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr  

wnwt-ḥwt-nṯr

References

• “wnw.t-ḥw.t-nṯr (lemma ID 550054)”, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], 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.