pr-bjtj

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house, palace”) +‎ bjtj (“king (of Lower Egypt^?)”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr biti/
- Conventional anglicization: per-biti

Noun

m

(rare) a kind of royal palace contrasted with pr-nswt, traditionally rendered as ‘palace of the king of Lower Egypt’ [Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-bjtj

bit

pr-bjt

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 513.6
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89

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