ⲯⲁϯ
Coptic
editAlternative forms
edit- ⲡⲉⲥⲁϯ (pesati) — Bohairic
- ⲯⲁⲧⲉ (psate) — Sahidic, Bohairic
- ⲡⲉⲥⲁⲧⲉ (pesate) — Sahidic
- ⲡⲉϣⲁⲧⲉ (pešate) — Sahidic
Etymology
editFrom Demotic pꜣ-sḏ.t (“the fire, light”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editⲯⲁϯ • (psati) m
- (Bohairic) a male given name
Descendants
edit- → Arabic: أَبْصَادِي (ʔabṣādī) بْسَادَة (bsāda)
- → Ancient Greek: Πεσατε (Pesate)
References
edit- 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