Egyptian
Etymology
From wrr (“to be great”) + -t (“feminine ending”).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /wVˈɾiɾjVt/ → /wVˈɾiʔjVʔ/ → /wəˈɾeʔja/ → /wəˈɾeʔjə/
Proper noun
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- the White Crown
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 18–19:
- pr.n.f mḏḥ.w m wḏ n(j) gbb šzp.n.f ḥqꜣt jdbwj wrrt mn.tj m tp.f
- He came forth wreathed at the command of Geb, having received the rulership of the Two Riverbanks (Egypt), the White Crown fixed upon his head.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrrt
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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[New Kingdom]
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[19th Dynasty]
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Noun
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- uraeus [since the 18th Dynasty]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrrt
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Descendants
References
- “wrr.t (lemma ID 47920)” and “Wrr.t (lemma ID 47930)”, 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 333.11–333.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 113.
- ^ Gundacker, Roman (2011) “On the Etymology of the Egyptian Crown Name mrsw.t*: An “Irregular” Subgroup of m-Prefix Formations” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 19, page 37