wnt

wnt

1. (text messaging) want

• N.W.T., NWT

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: wenet

From the terminative of wnn (“to exist”).

1. terminative of wnn

 proclitic

1. serves as a complementizer to convert a verbal or nonverbal sentence with realis mood into a subordinated noun clause; that

When followed by a clause with a pronominal subject and adverbial predicate, the subject takes the form of a suffix pronoun attached to wnt.

Subordinate complement clauses are typically unmarked if their mood is irrealis and marked with ntt, wnt, or jwt only if modally realis.

• ntt

 enclitic

1. Alternative form of wnnt (“truly, indeed”)

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 184, 193, 198, 317.
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Uljas, Sami (2007) The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses: A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language