ꜣbyt

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣby (“leopard or cheetah, panther”) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: abyt

Noun

f

a (female) lithe spotted big cat, including both leopards and cheetahs; female ‘panther’

Inflection

Declension of ꜣbyt (feminine)

singular	ꜣbyt
dual	ꜣbytj
plural	ꜣbywt

Descendants

Demotic: ꜣby, bꜣ
- → Ancient Greek: -αβως (-abōs), -εβως (-ebōs)[1]

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 7.11

Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel (2017) Representing Foreign Sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD, Leuven, Salamanca, page 665

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