jbṯt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibt͡ʃɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ibtjet

Noun

 f

1. bird trap, consisting of a net stretched over a framework that snapped shut when triggered [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of jbṯt (feminine)

singular	jbṯt
dual	jbṯtj
plural	jbṯwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbṯt  

jbṯt	jbṯ	jbt	jꜣbtt	jꜣbtj
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Book of the Dead]	[18th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• jbṯtj
• ḥwt-jbṯt

 

Descendants

The following words have been commonly proposed as descendants, but seem to have a phonetic mismatch (as Vycichl also notes); a precursor form such as *jbwt /jabaːwat/ would be expected:

• >? Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲃⲟⲩ (abou)
• >? Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲃⲱ (abō)
• >? Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲃⲱ (abō)
• >? Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲃⲱ (abō)

References

• “jbṯ.t (lemma ID 23990)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 31.12, 65.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 8, 16
• Grdseloff, Bernhard (1938) “Zum Vogelfang im Alten Reich: Ein Nachtrag” in Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, volume 74, pages 52–55
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2
• Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 3