pr
Demotic
Usage notes
This word is almost entirely restricted to compounds. Contrary to earlier Egyptian, the ordinary word for house in Demotic is ꜥ.wy.
Alternative forms
(pr)
Descendants
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)
References
- Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 132
- Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic, third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 9
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 127
Egyptian
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic *par- (“house”).[1] Compare also Proto-Berber *farr (“enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾəʔ/ → /poːɾ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: per
Noun
|
m
Inflection
Declension of pr (masculine u-stem)
| singular | pr |
|---|---|
| dual | prwj |
| plural | prw |
Derived terms
- jmj-r prwj (“civil servant”)
- jmj-r pr (“steward”)
- jmt-pr (“last will and testament”)
- pryt (“collection of buildings, compound”)
- pr ꜥꜣ (“palace, Pharaoh”)
- pr ꜥnḫ (“temple library”)
- pr wꜣḏ (“city of Per-Wadjet”)
- pr wr (“the temple at Nekheb”)
- pr bjtj (“palace of the king of Lower Egypt”)
- pr-ms
- pr mḏꜣt (“library”)
- pr nw (“the temple of Wadjet at Per-Wadjet”)
- pr nbw (“treasury”)
- pr nfr (“mortuary”)
- pr n nḥḥ (“tomb”)
- pr nzr (“temple of Wadjet at Per-Wadjet”)
- pr-nswt (“palace, temple”)
- pr ḥrj (“upstairs”)
- pr-ḥḏ (“treasury”)
- pr ḫntj (“harem”)
- pr ẖrj (“downstairs”)
- pr šnꜥ (“work camp”)
- pr dwꜣt (“dressing room”)
- pr dšr (“Treasury of Lower Egypt”)
- pr-ḏt (“funerary estate”)
- nbt-pr (“lady of the house”)
- r-pr
- ḥrt-pr
- ḫt pr (“property”)
Descendants
- Demotic:
(pr)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)
References
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 15
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*par-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12
Romanian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
References
- pr in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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