nfrt-jj.tj

Egyptian

Etymology

nfrt (“good one, beautiful one”) +‎ jj (“to come”) +‎ .tj (feminine third-person singular stative ending), thus literally ‘The Beautiful One has Come’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛrɛt iʔiʔti/, /nɛfɛrtiti/
  • Conventional anglicization: neferet-ii.ti, nefertiti

Proper noun

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1. a female given name, Nefertiti

Descendants

• → English: Nefertiti
• → German: Nofretete

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 212.