thebes

The story

1. Egyptian · derived fromtꜣ“the”
2. Demotic Egyptian · derived fromtꜣ-jpy“Thebes”
3. Proto-Hellenic · derived from*Tʰēgʷā
4. gmy · derived from𐀳𐀣
5. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromΘῆβαι
6. English todayThebes

From Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai), from two different sources. The name of the Greek city is further derived from Ionic-Attic Θήβη (Thḗbē), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀳𐀣 (te-qa /⁠Tʰēgʷā⁠/), from Proto-Hellenic *Tʰēgʷā, while the name of the Egyptian city is from Egyptian Demotic Egyptian tꜣ-jpy (“Thebes”, literally “the temple”), from earlier Egyptian tꜣ (“the”) + i-p:t-O45 (jpt, “Luxor”, literally “inner sanctum”).

Words from the same roots