nfrt-jj.tj

Egyptian

Etymology

nfrt (“good one, beautiful one”) +‎ jj (“to come”) +‎ .tj (feminine third-person singular stative ending), thus literally ‘The Beautiful One has Come’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛrɛt iʔiʔti/, /nɛfɛrtiti/
- Conventional anglicization: neferet-ii.ti, nefertiti

Proper noun

f

A female given name, Nefertiti.

Descendants

→ English: Nefertiti

References

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.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.