ⲃⲉⲣϭⲱⲧ

Coptic

Carl Wuttke, Early Morning on the Holy Pond in Karnak

Alternative forms

• ⲃⲉⲣϭⲟⲟⲩⲧ (bercoout) — Sahidic

Etymology

From Demotic brkt, ultimately from a borrowing from Semitic. Compare Arabic بِرْكة (birka).

Noun

ⲃⲉⲣϭⲱⲧ • (bercōt) m or f

1. (Bohairic) pond

References

• Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8)‎^[1] (in German), Göttingen, page 40