nfrt-jj.tj
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
nfrt (“good one, beautiful one”) + jj (“to come”) + .tj (feminine third-person singular stative ending), thus literally ‘The Beautiful One has Come’.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛfɛrɛt iʔiʔti/, /nɛfɛrtiti/
- Conventional anglicization: neferet-ii.ti, nefertiti
Proper noun edit
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- a female given name, Nefertiti
Descendants edit
References edit
- 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.