ψχέντ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian pꜣ-sḫmtj (“the two powerful ones”), from pꜣ (definite article) + sḫmtj, dual of sḫmt (“powerful one”), from sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pskʰént/ → /psçent/ → /psçend/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pskʰént/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pskʰent/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psçent/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psçent/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psçend/

Noun

ψχέντ • (pskhént) (invariable)

1. pschent (double crown of ancient Egypt)
   • OGI 90.44

Descendants

• English: pschent

References

• “ψχέντ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ψχέντ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Dittenberg, Wilhelm (ed.), 1903, Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae (Leipzig: S. Hirzel), vol. 1, pp. 162–63.