nṯrwj

Egyptian

Etymology

From nṯr (“god”) +‎ -wj (dual ending).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛt͡ʃruːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: netjrewi

Proper noun

 m du

1. Horus and Set
2. Shu and Tefnut

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nṯrwj  

nṯrwj

Proper noun

 m du

1. the fifth nome of Upper Egypt, centered at Coptos and also containing Dendera and Naqada

Usage notes

The reading of this term is disputed; some have proposed ḥrwj instead.

References

• “nṯr.wj (lemma ID 851539)” and “nṯr.wj (lemma ID 850442)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 360.2–360.4