ḥwnj

See also: hwnj

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḥwj (“to hit, to strike”) +‎ nj (an unidentified element).

The proper noun comes from the participle of the verb, thus ‘the hitting one’, ‘the striking one’, a posthumous variant of the king’s attested lifetime throne name nswt-ḥw (literally “the striking king”).

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːni/
- Conventional anglicization: huni

Verb

(transitive) to hit, to strike (+ ḥr: upon (the back)) [since Middle Kingdom literature]
(intransitive) to flow, to flood

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwnj

ḥwnj

Derived terms

ḥwnj r ḥr

Proper noun

m

A throne name notably borne by Huni, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwnj

ḥwnj

from pPrisse 2.7

References

“ḥwi̯-n.y (lemma ID 102510)” and “Ḥwnj (lemma ID 650010)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 49.5–49.8
Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 33
von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 51, 177