ψχέντ
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Egyptian pꜣ-sḫmtj (“the two powerful ones”), from pꜣ (definite article) + sḫmtj, dual of sḫmt (“powerful one”), from sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pskʰént/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pskʰent/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /psçent/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /psçent/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /psçend/
Noun[edit]
ψχέντ • (pskhént) (invariable)
- pschent (double crown of ancient Egypt)
- OGI 90.44
Descendants[edit]
- English: pschent
References[edit]
- “ψχέντ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ψχέντ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Dittenberg, Wilhelm (ed.), 1903, Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae (Leipzig: S. Hirzel), vol. 1, pp. 162–63.