wpwtj

Egyptian

Etymology

Nominalized from wpwt (“message, task”) +‎ -j (nisba ending).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /wapˈwuːtij/ → /wapˈwuːtij/ → /wəpˈwuːtə/ → /wəpˈweːt/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /wapˈwuːtij/ (singular); /wapˈwutjVw/ (plural)

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /wapˈwuːtij/ (singular); /wapˈwutjVw/ (plural)

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /wəpˈwuːtə/ (singular); /wəpˈwutjə/ (plural)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /wəpˈweːt/ (singular); /wəpˈwøti/ (plural)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛpuːti/
  • Conventional anglicization: weputi

Noun

 m

1. one entrusted with a message or task, messenger, envoy, emissary
2. (by extension) a spirit that brings death

Inflection

Declension of wpwtj (masculine)

singular	wpwtj
dual	wpwtjwj
plural	wpwtjw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wpwtj  

wptj	wptj	wpwt

Descendants

• Demotic: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (wpṱ)
• → Meroitic: 𐦠𐦧𐦣𐦵 (apote /⁠aput(ə)⁠/)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 304.6–304.11
• Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, pages 25, 99
• Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago‎^[2], volume W (09.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 77
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 272, 458.