nwy
Egyptian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nuːiː/
- Conventional anglicization: nuy
Noun edit
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- (uncountable) water
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 83–86:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n ḏd.n.f n.j (j)n-mj jn tw zpwj snwj nḏs (j)n-mj jn tw r jw pn n(j) wꜣḏ-wr ntj gs(wj).fj m nwy
- Then he said to me,
―Who brought you, who brought you, little man? Who brought you to this island of the sea, both of whose sides are in the water?
Related terms edit
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References edit
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 149.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
nwy
- Alternative form of noy
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /nuːɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /nʊi̯/
- Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯
Etymology 1 edit
From a conjectured element *ny- (“spreading”) + gwy (“fluid”).[1]
Noun edit
nwy m (plural nwyon, not mutable)
Derived terms edit
- nwy dagrau m (“tear gas”)
- nwy naturiol m (“natural gas”)
- nwyeiddio (“gasify”, verb)
- nwyol (“gaseous”, adjective)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Numeral edit
nwy
- Nasal mutation of dwy.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
dwy | ddwy | nwy | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |