wrrt

Egyptian

Etymology

From wrr (“to be great”) +‎ -t (“feminine ending”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /wVˈɾiɾjVt/ → /wVˈɾiʔjVʔ/ → /wəˈɾeʔja/ → /wəˈɾeʔjə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /wVˈɾiɾjVt/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /wVˈɾiʔjVʔ/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /wəˈɾeʔja/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /wəˈɾeʔjə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛrɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: wereret

Proper noun

 f

1. the White Crown
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 18–19:

     pr.n.f mḏḥ.w m wḏ n(j) gbb šzp.n.f ḥqꜣt jdbwj wrrt mn.tj m tp.f

     He came forth wreathed at the command of Geb, having received the rulership of the Two Riverbanks (Egypt), the White Crown fixed upon his head.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrrt  

wrrt	wrrt	wrrt	wrrt	wrt	wrrt
		[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[19th Dynasty]

Noun

 f

1. uraeus [since the 18th Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrrt  

wrrt

[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: οὐραῖος (ouraîos)
  • → Latin: uraeus
    • → English: uraeus

References

• “wrr.t (lemma ID 47920)” and “Wrr.t (lemma ID 47930)”, 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 333.11–333.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 113.