ꜣḫ-bjt

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣḫ (“papyrus thicket”) +‎ bjt(j) (“king of Lower Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘papyrus thicket of the king of Lower Egypt’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑx bit/
  • Conventional anglicization: akh-bit

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. a mythological island, Chemmis, where Horus was said to have been reared in secret, most often identified with a lake site near Buto

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣḫ-bjt  

ꜣḫ-bjt	ꜣḫ-bjt	ꜣḫ-bjt	ꜣḫ-bjt	ꜣḫ-bjt
				[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ꜣst-m-ꜣḫ-bjt

 

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 13.3–13.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4