๐Žฑ๐Žข๐Žซ๐Ž ๐Žน๐Ž 

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Old Persian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Egyptian
piit
Z1
T14
N26
Z1
Z1 Z1
(pyt, โ€œLibyaโ€),[1] from earlier pwd.[2] Compare with Demotic
t&A piiWd
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T14
N26
(t๊œฃ pywdj) Coptic โฒซโฒโฒ“โฒโฒง (phaiat) and โฒกโฒโฒ“โฒ‰โฒง (paiet).
Either independently derived or potentially via Neo-Babylonian ๐’๐’Œ‘๐’‚… (pu-รบ-แนญu /โ Pลซแนญuโ /) and Late Babylonian ๐’๐’Œ‘๐’• (pu-รบ-แนญa /โ Pลซแนญaโ /), ๐’๐’•๐’€€๐’€€ (pu-แนญa-a-a /โ Puแนญฤโ /), which are not from Old Persian, but directly from Egyptian themselves.
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Proper noun

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๐Žฑ๐Žข๐Žซ๐Ž ๐Žน๐Ž  (Putฤyฤ)

  1. Libya (a country in North Africa)

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Posener, Georges (1936) La premiรจre domination perse en ร‰gypte: Recueil dโ€™inscriptions hiรฉroglyphiques, page 186
  2. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550โ€“330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, โ†’ISBN, page 95