zpyt

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from zpytovat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspɪt]

Noun

zpyt m inan

1. (archaic or literary) inquiry, investigation, research

Declension

Declension of zpyt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	zpyt	zpyty
genitive	zpytu	zpytů
dative	zpytu	zpytům
accusative	zpyt	zpyty
vocative	zpyte	zpyty
locative	zpytu	zpytech
instrumental	zpytem	zpyty

Derived terms

• dějezpyt
• dušezpyt
• jazykozpyt
• přírodozpyt
• silozpyt
• zemězpyt

 

Related terms

• zpytovat

 

Further reading

• zpyt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• zpyt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Egyptian

Etymology

zpj (“to remain”) +‎ -y +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛpiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: zepyt

Noun

 f

1. rest, remainder, remnant [since the Middle kingdom]
2. remainder in calculations
3. remaining food

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zpyt  

zpt	zpyt
[Middle Kingdom]

References

• “zp.yt (lemma ID 132730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 440.8–440.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 222