brwgtj
Egyptian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Semitic; compare Hebrew בָּרֶקֶת (bāréqet) and Akkadian [Term?] (/barraqtu/), as well as other loanwords from Semitic, such as Sanskrit मरकत (marakata) and Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), the latter ultimately the source of English emerald.
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛruːɡti/
- Conventional anglicization: berugti
Noun
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- (rare) A kind of semi-precious stone. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
Descendants
edit- Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲃⲉⲣⲏϫ (aberēč)
References
edit- “brg.t (lemma ID 56610)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2