ꜥnt

Egyptian

Etymology 1

From ꜥnn (“to turn back”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

 

• (senses ‘claw, nail’ and ‘adze’): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiːnVt/ → /ˈʕiːnVʔ/ → /ˈʕiːna/ → /ˈʕiːnə/

• (senses ‘claw, nail’ and ‘adze’): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiːnVt/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (senses ‘claw, nail’ and ‘adze’): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiːnVʔ/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (senses ‘claw, nail’ and ‘adze’): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiːna/
• (senses ‘claw, nail’ and ‘adze’): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiːnə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: anet

Noun

 f

1. claw
2. nail, fingernail, toenail

   ― jrj ꜥnwt ― to trim and prepare one’s nails, to do one’s nails

3. talon of a bird
4. thumb [Medical papyri and Late Period]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)

singular	ꜥnt
dual	ꜥntj
plural	ꜥnwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnt  

ꜥnt	ꜥnt	ꜥnw	ꜥnw
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥn.t, ꜥne.t
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲛⲓ (ini)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲛⲉ (eine), ⲓⲛⲉ (ine)

Noun

 f

1. carpenter’s adze [Middle and New Kingdoms]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)

singular	ꜥnt
dual	ꜥntj
plural	ꜥnwt

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲛⲓ (ini)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲛⲉ (eine)

Noun

 f

1. (jewelry) ring [18th Dynasty]
2. eyelet on a piece of jewelry [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)

singular	ꜥnt
dual	ꜥntj
plural	ꜥnwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnt  

ꜥnt

Derived terms

• ꜥnt-ds

Noun

 f

1. the smallest unit of time, smaller than a ḥꜣt; approximately a tierce [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥnt (feminine)

singular	ꜥnt
dual	ꜥntj
plural	ꜥnwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnt  

ꜥnt	ꜥnt

Etymology 2

From ꜥnj (“to be beautiful, pleasant, kind”) +‎ -t, thus ‘the beautiful/pleasant/kind one’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: anet

Noun

 f

1. an epithet of Hathor [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38130)”, “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38120)”, “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38140)”, “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38150)”, and “ꜥn.t (lemma ID 38160)”, 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 187.17–188.11, 190.19–190.21
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43