ψχέντ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian pꜣ-sḫmtj (“the two powerful ones”), from pꜣ (definite article) + sḫmtj, dual of sḫmt (“powerful one”), from sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”). Less likely etymologies include Egyptian pꜣ-sḫntj (“that which promotes”), from pꜣ + sḫntj (“to promote”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pskʰént/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pskʰɛnt/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psxent/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psçent/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psçend/

Noun

ψχέντ • (pskhént) (invariable)

pschent (double crown of ancient Egypt)
- OGI 90.44

Descendants

English: pschent

References

ψχέντ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ψχέντ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Dittenberg, Wilhelm (ed.), 1903, Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae (Leipzig: S. Hirzel), vol. 1, pp. 162–63.

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