bjtj

Egyptian

Etymology

Nominalized from bjt (“bee”) +‎ -j (“nisba ending”), literally ’the one of the bee’, the bee being an emblem of Lower Egypt.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /biˈjaːtVj/ → /biˈjaːtVj/ → /bəˈjaːtə/ → /βəˈjoːt/

Noun

 m

  1. king of Lower Egypt
  2. hereditary or ancestral king

Inflection

Declension of bjtj (masculine)
singular bjtj
dual bjtjwj
plural bjtjw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bjtj  
bjt

Derived terms

References

  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 67.
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