bjtj
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nominalized from bjt (“bee”) + -j (“nisba ending”), literally ’the one of the bee’, the bee being an emblem of Lower Egypt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /biˈjaːtVj/ → /biˈjaːtVj/ → /bəˈjaːtə/ → /βəˈjoːt/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /biti/
- Conventional anglicization: biti
Noun
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- king of Lower Egypt
- hereditary or ancestral king
Inflection
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[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bjtj
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 67.