ḥwnt

See also: hwnt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥwn (“young”) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hunet

Noun

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1. girl [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (rare) marriageable young woman, maiden
3. pupil of the eye

Inflection

Declension of ḥwnt (feminine)

singular	ḥwnt
dual	ḥwntj
plural	ḥwnwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwnt  

ḥwnt	ḥwnwt	ḥwnt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 53.10–53.11, 53.21–54.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 166
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 232.