nwt

Noun

 * 1) town, city

Usage notes
There is some disagreement about how to read this word and its ideogram ; the German tradition (cf. the Wörterbuch) tends to read  or, while Loprieno reads  with an unwritten but phonemic glottal stop, and the Anglo-American tradition (cf. Gardiner, Allen, Faulkner) reads. Gardiner supports the latter reading with reference to    from the Pyramid Texts, derived from. The German readings are supported by a writing of  for the name of the goddess Tefnut ( or ) in the  IV 48, as well as by the use of the word in place of  in writings of. The reading of is apparently supported by, who claims that Thebes   was named after Osiris’s mother, presumably the goddess Nut. Loprieno’s reading with a glottal stop is supported by the Hebrew rendering of the name of Thebes as well as its Akkadian transcription. Other evidence includes the very late variant writing   for Ancient Greek  and the (late) Greek rendering of the word as  in the name of the pharaoh.

Proper noun

 * 1) Thebes
 * 2) the City, personified as a deity

Noun

 * 1)  sky

Proper noun

 * 1) the goddess Nut (literally “Sky”)

Noun

 * 1) adze