nwy

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nuːiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: nuy

 m

1. (uncountable) water
   • c. 2000–1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115), lines 83–86:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n ḏd.n.f n.j (j)n-mj jn tw zpwj snwj nḏs (j)n-mj jn tw r jw pn n(j) wꜣḏ-wr ntj gs(wj).fj m nwy

     Then he said to me,
     ―Who brought you, who brought you, little man? Who brought you to this island of the sea, both of whose sides are in the water?

(Possibly:)

• nnw

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 149.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /nuːɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /nʊi̯/

nwy m (plural nwyon)

1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

See the etymology of the main entry.

nwy

1. Nasal mutation of dwy.