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/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /biˈjaːtVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /biˈjaːtVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /bəˈjaːtə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /βəˈjoːt/

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

Noun

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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

• ꜣḫ-bjt
• pr-bjtj
• nfrw-bjtj
• nswt-bjtj

 

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.