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Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (in the sense ‘the elite’): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈpiːʕVt/ → /ˈpiːʕVʔ/ → /ˈpeːʕa/ → /ˈpeːʕə/
Noun
f
- (collective) social stratum of nobility: elite, patricians
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 19:
- swḏ n.f rmt rḫyt pꜥt ḥnmmt tꜣ-mrj ḥꜣ(w)-nbw(t)
- Humankind was bequeathed to him, the commoners and patricians, the sunfolk of the Beloved Land (Egypt) and the Aegean islanders.
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
f
- loaf of bread
Inflection
Declension of pꜥt (feminine)
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 113, 150.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 97