ꜣḫ-bjt
Egyptian
Etymology
ꜣḫ (“papyrus thicket”) + bjt(j) (“king of Lower Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘papyrus thicket of the king of Lower Egypt’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑx bit/
- Conventional anglicization: akh-bit
Proper noun
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m./f. topo.
- a mythological island, Chemmis, where Horus was said to have been reared in secret, most often identified with a lake site near Buto
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣḫ-bjt
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Derived terms
- ꜣst-m-ꜣḫ-bjt
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 13.3–13.4
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4