the name of bubastis in egyptian is "pr-bȝst.t", conventionally pronounced "per-bast" but its earlier egyptian pronunciation can be reconstructed as /ˈpaɾu-buˈʀistit/. it is a compound of egyptian “house" and the name of the goddess bastet; thus the phrase means "house of bast". in later forms of egyptian, sound shifts had altered the pronunciation. in bohairic coptic, the name is rendered , or .