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

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wnn-nfr

wnn-nfr

Descendants

Bohairic Coptic: ⲃⲉⲛⲟϥⲉⲣ (benofer), ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲁϥⲣ (ouenafr) — Old Coptic, ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲟϥⲣⲉ (ouenofre) — Sahidic, ⲟⲩⲉⲛⲁⲃⲣⲉ (ouenabre) — Oxyrhynchite
- → Arabic: نُوفِير (nūfīr), نُوفْر (nūfr)
- → Ancient Greek: Ὀνούφριος (Onoúphrios), Ὀννῶφρις (Onnôphris)
  - Greek: Ονούφριος (Onoúfrios)
  - → Coptic: ⲟⲛⲛⲱⲫⲣⲓⲥ (onnōphris)
  - → Latin: Onuphrius
    - → English: Onuphrius
    - → Finnish: Nurhonen
    - Italian: Onofrio
    - → Lithuanian: Anùpras
    - → Polish: Onufry
    - Portuguese: Onofre
    - Spanish: Onofre
  - Romanian: Onufrie
  - → Russian: Онуфрий (Onufrij), Онуша (Onuša)
→ Arabic: ابو نفر (ʔabū nufir), ابو نوفر (ʔabū 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, pages 251, 459.