wnt
English
editVerb
editwnt
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editEgyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛnɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: wenet
Etymology 1
editFrom the terminative of wnn (“to exist”).
Verb
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- terminative of wnn
Particle
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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
editWhen 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
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of wnt
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wnt | wnt |
Synonyms
editEtymology 2
editParticle
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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