zꜣ-nswt

Egyptian

Etymology

From zꜣ (“son”) +‎ nswt (“king”) in a direct genitive construction. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɑ nɛsuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: za-nesut

Noun

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1. prince; son of the king

Inflection

Declension of zꜣ-nswt (masculine)

singular	zꜣ-nswt
dual	zꜣwj-nswt
plural	zꜣw-nswt

Descendants

• ⇒ Demotic: pꜣ-sy-nsy
  • → Meroitic: 𐦧𐦡𐦱𐦶 (peseto /⁠pəsəntu⁠/)
    • → Ancient Greek: ψεντης (psentēs)
    • → Demotic: p(ꜣ)-sntj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 44, 135, 217, 230.