ⲯⲁϯ
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Coptic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ⲡⲉⲥⲁϯ (pesati) — Bohairic
- ⲯⲁⲧⲉ (psate) — Sahidic, Bohairic
- ⲡⲉⲥⲁⲧⲉ (pesate) — Sahidic
- ⲡⲉϣⲁⲧⲉ (pešate) — Sahidic
Etymology
[edit]From Demotic pꜣ-sḏ.t (“the fire, light”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]ⲯⲁϯ • (psati) m
- (Bohairic) a male given name
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: أَبْصَادِي (ʔabṣādī) بْسَادَة (bsāda)
- → Ancient Greek: Πεσατε (Pesate)
References
[edit]- Trismegistos
- Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel (2017) Representing Foreign Sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD, Leuven, Salamanca
- Quaegebeur, Le dieu égyptien Shai (OLA 2), 1975, p. 195
- Isḥāḳ, Emile Māher. 1975. "The phonetics and phonology of the Boḥairic dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Word in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic". University of Oxford