== 語源 ==
テフヌトの名前の語源は定かではないが、創世神話でアトゥムが彼女を吐き出すように、吐き出す音のオノマトペである可能性もある。
The name Tefnut has no certain etymology but it may be an [[onomatopoeia]] of the sound of spitting, as [[Atum]] spits her out in some versions of the creation myth. Additionally, her name was written as a mouth spitting in late texts.<ref name="Ancient Egypt page. 183">{{cite book |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Richard H. |title=The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt |date=2003 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=0-500-05120-8 |page=183 |url=https://archive.org/details/TheCompleteGodsAndGoddessesOfAncientEgypt/The%20Complete%20Gods%20and%20Goddesses%20of%20Ancient%20Egypt/page/n183/mode/2up |access-date=4 May 2022}}</ref>