wn

See also: WN, Wn, wn', and .wn

English

wn

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of one.

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /waːn/ → /waːn/ → /waːn/ → /woːn/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /waːn/ (infinitive)
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /waːn/ (infinitive)
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /waːn/ (infinitive)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /woːn/ (infinitive)

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

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to open (a door)
   • c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, line 9:

     wn.n n.k ꜥꜣwj m bntjw

     We open the double doors to you as baboons.

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
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2:

     
     

     wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdww

     The tent is open to the quiet man; the place of the man calm in speech is broad.^[1]

6. (transitive) to open (a path), to make traversable
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:

     wꜣt zš.tj mṯnw wn(.w)

     The road is traversable, the paths are open.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wn	wnw, wn	wnt	wn, j.wn	wn, j.wn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
wn	ḥr wn	m wn	r wn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	wn.n	wnw, wn	consecutive	wn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	wnt
perfective3	wn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	wn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	wn, j.wn1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	wn	wnn	potentialis1	wn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	wn, j.wn1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	wn	active + .tj1, .tw2	wn	wnn, wnnj6, wn2, wnw2 5, wny2 5
imperfective	j.wn1, wn, wny, wnw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.wn1, j.wnw1 5, wn, wnj6, wny6	wn, wnw5
prospective	wn, wntj7	—	wntj4, wnt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Conjugation of wn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: wn, geminated stem: wnn

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  

wn	wn	wn	wn
[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]
		abbreviation	abbreviation

Synonyms

• wbꜣ
• wpj
• swn
• zn
• kfꜣ

Derived terms

• swn

 

Descendants

• Demotic: wn
  • Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲛ (ouōn)

See also

• 𓃹

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian) opening of a door

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  

wn

abbreviation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. fault, blame

Inflection

singular	wn
dual	wnwj
plural	wnw

Declension of wn (masculine)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  

wn

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /wan/^[2]
• (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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wn  

wn

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, 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, 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

1. Alternatively, taking m as imperative (j)m: ‘…the place of the calm man is broad. Don’t speak!’ The first clause can also be interpreted in two different ways. If n represents the preposition n, then ‘The tent is open to the quiet man’; but if it represents the genitival adjective n(j), then ‘The tent of the quiet man is open’. The first interpretation is more appealing semantically, but the second is favored by parallelism with the following clause.
2. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 16

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

Mutated forms of gwn

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gwn	wn	ngwn	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.