ḥwnj

== 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 ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ḥwnj r ḥr === Proper noun === m a throne name notably borne by Huni, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === “ḥwi̯-n.y (lemma ID 102510)” and “Ḥwnj (lemma ID 650010)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026 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