ⲯⲁϯ
Coptic
Alternative forms
- ⲡⲉⲥⲁϯ (pesati) – Bohairic
- ⲯⲁⲧⲉ (psate) – Sahidic, Bohairic
- ⲡⲉⲥⲁⲧⲉ (pesate) – Sahidic
- ⲡⲉϣⲁⲧⲉ (pešate) – Sahidic
Etymology
From Demotic Pȝ-Sḏ.t (“the fire, light”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (reconstructed Classical Coptic) /ˈpsaʔtə/
Proper noun
ⲯⲁϯ • (psati) m
- (Bohairic) A male given name
Descendants
- → Arabic: ابصادى (ebśādi) بساده (bsāda)
- → Ancient Greek: Πεσατε (Pesate)
References
- Trismegistos
- Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel, 2017. Representing foreign sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD. Leuven, Salamanca
- Quaegebeur, Le dieu égyptien Shai (OLA 2), 1975, p. 195
- Isḥāḳ, Emile Māher. 1975. "The phonetics and phonology of the Boḥairic dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Word in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic". University of Oxford