nwy

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

 m

1. (uncountable) water
   • c. 2000 BCE – 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.

nwy

1. Alternative form of noy

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

nwy m (plural nwyon, not mutable)

1. (physics) gas (state of matter)

• nwy dagrau m (“tear gas”)
• nwy naturiol m (“natural gas”)
• nwyeiddio (“gasify”, verb)
• nwyol (“gaseous”, adjective)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nwy

1. Nasal mutation of dwy.