wnn-nfr

wnn-nfr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 November 2013

Etymology

wnn (“(one who) continually exists”) +‎ nfr (“to be good, perfect, beautiful”) +‎ (.w) (third-person masculine stative ending), thus literally ‘one who continually exists in being good/perfect/beautiful’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnɛn nɛfɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: wenen-nefer

Proper noun

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1. an epithet or alternative name for the god Osiris.
2. a male given name, Wenennefer

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲃⲉⲛⲟϥⲉⲣ (benofer)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲟϥⲣⲉ (ouenofre)
• Oxyrhynchite Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲁⲃⲣⲉ (ouenabre)
• → Ancient Greek: Ὀνούφριος (Onoúphrios)
  • Greek: Ονούφριος (Onoúfrios)
  • → English: Onuphrius
  • → Italian: Onofrio
  • → Romanian: Onufrie
  • → Russian: Онуфрий (Onufrij)
  • → Spanish: Onofre
  • → Portuguese: Onofre
• → Arabic: ابو نفر‎ (ʾabū nufir), ابو نوفر‎ (ʾabū nūfir), نوفير‎ (nūfir)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251.