ttj

See also: ṯꜣtj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtatij/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: teti

Proper noun

 m

1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Teti, a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty
2. A throne name notably borne by Hor-Aha and Sekhemkhet, pharaohs of the First and Third Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ttj  

ttj	tty

Descendants

• → English: Teti

by way of a Greek spelling error from a form such as *Θόθις (*Thóthis):

• → Ancient Greek: Ὀθόης (Othóēs)

by way of a misreading of hieratic t as r:

• → Ancient Greek: Τύρεις (Túreis)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: teti

Proper noun

 f

1. a female given name, Teti

References

• “Ttj (lemma ID 450656)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 25, 32, 42
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 46, 51, 56, 171, 176, 184
• Sethe, Kurt (1908) Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, volume 1, page XII
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 320, 342.