ⲯⲁϯ

Coptic

Alternative forms

• ⲡⲉⲥⲁϯ (pesati) — Bohairic
• ⲯⲁⲧⲉ (psate) — Sahidic, Bohairic
• ⲡⲉⲥⲁⲧⲉ (pesate) — Sahidic
• ⲡⲉϣⲁⲧⲉ (pešate) — Sahidic

Etymology

From Demotic pꜣ-sḏ.t (“the fire, light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (reconstructed Classical Coptic) /ˈpsaʔtə/

Proper noun

ⲯⲁϯ • (psati) m

1. (Bohairic) a male given name

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَبْصَادِي (ʔabṣādī) بْسَادَة (bsāda)
• → Ancient Greek: Πεσατε (Pesate)

References

• 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