wn

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English

wn

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of one.

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: wen

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to open (a door)
2. (intransitive) to open up, to permit access to oneself, to open the door (+ n: for (someone))
3. (transitive) to open (a container)
4. (transitive, rare) to unlatch (a bolt or latch)
5. (transitive) to open the way into (a place), to open up, to make (a building, fortress, city, sanctum, tomb, cavern, land, the sky, the underworld, etc.) freely accessible
6. (transitive) to open (a path), to make traversable
7. (transitive) to spread wide, to open (one’s hands, arms, etc.)
8. (transitive) to open (one’s eyes, nose, mouth, etc.)
9. (transitive) to stretch (one’s legs) out for walking
10. (transitive, Late Egyptian) to let (someone) out of confinement, to release
11. (transitive, Late Egyptian, of thieves) to break in to, to forcibly open (a building)
12. (reflexive) to become open, to open

Inflection

Alternative forms

Synonyms

• wbꜣ
• wpj
• swn
• zn
• kfꜣ

Derived terms

Descendants

• Demotic: wn
  • Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲛ (ouōn)

See also

• 𓃹

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian) opening of a door

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: wen

Noun

 m

1. fault, blame

Inflection

Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /wan/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: wen

Noun

 m

1. desert hare

   Synonym: sẖꜥt

Etymology 4

Pronoun

 pl 1. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

1. Late Egyptian variant of n (“we”)

Alternative forms

References

• “wn (lemma ID 46060)”, “wn (lemma ID 46070)”, “wn (lemma ID 46080)”, “wn (lemma ID 46110)”, and “wn (lemma ID 46020)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 307.9, 311.2–312.12, 314.7–314.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 60–61
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 169, 295, 298.
• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 77

Spanish

Adjective

wn (feminine wna, masculine plural wnes, feminine plural wnas) (abbreviation)

1. (Chile, informal, Internet slang, text messaging) Contraction of huevón.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊn/

Verb

wn

1. Soft mutation of gwn.

Mutation