bjtj

Egyptian

Etymology

Nominalized from bjt (“bee”) +‎ -j (“nisba ending”), literally ’the one of the bee’, the bee being an emblem of Lower Egypt.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /biˈjaːtVj/ → /biˈjaːtVj/ → /bəˈjaːtə/ → /βəˈjoːt/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /biti/
- Conventional anglicization: biti

Noun

m

king of Lower Egypt
hereditary or ancestral king

Inflection

Declension of bjtj (masculine)

singular	bjtj
dual	bjtjwj
plural	bjtjw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bjtj

bit

bjt

Derived terms

References

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.

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