wnt
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
wnt
Anagrams[edit]
Egyptian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛnɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: wenet
Etymology 1[edit]
From the terminative of wnn (“to exist”).
Verb[edit]
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- terminative of wnn
Particle[edit]
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proclitic
- serves as a complementizer to convert a verbal or nonverbal sentence with realis mood into a subordinated noun clause; that
Usage notes[edit]
When followed by a clause with a pronominal subject and adverbial predicate, the subject takes the form of a suffix pronoun attached to wnt.
Subordinate complement clauses are typically unmarked if their mood is irrealis and marked with ntt, wnt, or jwt only if modally realis.
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnt
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wnt | wnt |
Synonyms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Particle[edit]
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enclitic
- Alternative form of wnnt (“truly, indeed”)
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, pages 184, 193, 198, 317.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Uljas, Sami (2007) The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses: A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language