wnuti
‘hour-observer, horoscoper, astronomer’
- Language
- Carian
- Class
- Loanwoard
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1570
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Carian
wnuti
‘hour-observer, horoscoper, astronomer’1.1.1Transmission
Hapax in a false door-stela from Memphis, c. 500-470 (Kammerzell 1993a:170f.).
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. | wnutiś | E.Me 31 |
The attestation follows Adiego 2007a:429 checked against the photograph in O. Masson 1978a:Pl. XIV, 2.
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1.1.3Meaning ‘hour-observer, horoscoper, astronomer’
Vittmann 2001a:48f. with refs. identified this word with the Egyptian word wnwtj ‘hour-observer, horoscoper, astronomer’, followed by Adiego 2007a:278, 429, which is a formally and contextually fitting solution.
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1.1.4Origin
This word is an Egyptian loanword or foreign word, see under Meaning.
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