bjt

See also: BJT

Translingual

Symbol

bjt

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Balanta-Ganja.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Balanta-Ganja terms

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Heavily disputed. The final -t is usually considered a separate feminine ending in origin rather than a part of the root, but this is not wholly certain. Etymological hypotheses include:

  • Cognate with Beja wíyu.
  • From an earlier form *brt, in which case there are a number of mutually exclusive possibilities:
    • Cognate with El Molo póruat (“bee”).
    • Cognate with Western Rift *baʾara (“bee”) and its descendants: Iraqw baʾārmō (“bee”), Burunge băʾălĭmŭ (“bee”), Alagwa baʾaramo (“fly, bee”).
    • Cognate with Mofu-Gudur béber (“horsefly”).
    • Cognate with Pévé b̰úr (“honey (?)”)
  • From an earlier form *blt, cognate with Kulere ʾabyál (“honey”), Mazagway bŏlŏ́m (“honey”), Musey mbulyuma (“honey”), Lele (Chad) bùlò (“hive”).

Several linguists have also proposed an areal connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”), noting the existence of a number of parallels between Afroasiatic and Indo-European bee-keeping terminology.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /biˈjat/ → /biˈjaʔ/ → /bəˈjaʔ/ → /βəˈjaʔ/

Noun

 f

  1. honey bee
Usage notes

Commonly used as a symbol of Lower Egypt.

Derived terms

Noun

 f

  1. honey
Descendants
  • Demotic: ⁠⁠⁠ (jby)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

 f

  1. a kind of flat loaf of bread [since the Medical Papyri]
  2. flat cake (of some given substance) in general
Inflection
Declension of bjt (feminine)
singular bjt
dual bjtj
plural bjwt
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bjt  



jbt jwbt bꜣjt bꜣj bjꜣt
[Medical papyri] [Medical papyri] [Medical papyri] [18th Dynasty] [New Kingdom]

References

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