bjk

Translingual

Symbol

bjk

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Barok.

See also

Wiktionary’s coverage of Barok terms

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Old Egyptian) /ˈbaːjVk/,^[1] where V represents an unknown short vowel.

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bik/
- Conventional anglicization: bik

Noun

m

falcon
- c. 1800 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version R (pRamesseum A/pBerlin 10499, Verso) lines 21–22:
  
  bjk ꜥẖ.f ḥnꜥ šms[w].f nn rḏjt rḫ st mšꜥ.f
  The falcon flew off together with his retinue without letting his army know about it.

Inflection

Declension of *bjk* (masculine)
singular	bjk
dual	bjkwj
plural	bjkw

Descendants

Demotic Egyptian: bk
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲃⲏϫ (bēj), ⲃⲉϫⲓ (beji)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲃⲏϭ (bēč), ⲃⲓϭ (bič)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲃⲏϭ (bēč), ⲃⲉϭ (beč), ⲃϭ (bč)

See also

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References

^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN