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 a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *par- (“house”).[1] Compare also Proto-Berber *farr (“enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾə/ → /poːɾ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: per
Noun
|
m
- house
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) line 158:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n ḏd.n.f n.j snb.t(j) zpwj snwj nḏs r pr.k
- Then he said to me, Safe travels, safe travels, little man, to your house!
- household, inhabitants of a house collectively
- property collectively, possessions, estate
- (Late Egyptian) garden or estate as a piece of land
- (of the king) palace
- (of gods) temple
- (of gods) temple property and administration, temple estate
- (of the dead) tomb
- (usually with qualifying word) building with some other particular use
- (rare) nest (of the bꜣybꜣy insect) [Medical Papyri]
- case, chest, holder (for ointments, bows, mirrors, etc.)
Inflection
Declension of pr (masculine u-stem)
| singular | pr |
|---|---|
| dual | prwj |
| plural | prw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr
Derived terms
- jmj-r-pr (“steward”)
- jmt-pr (“last will and testament”)
- pr.sn (“home”)
- pryt (“collection of buildings, compound”)
- pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, Pharaoh”)
- pr-ꜥnḫ (“temple scriptorium”)
- pr-ꜥḥꜣw (“arsenal”)
- pr-wꜣḏ (“city of Per-Wadjet”)
- pr-wr (“the temple at Nekheb”)
- pr-bꜣstt
- pr-bjtj (“palace of the king of Lower Egypt”)
- pr-mꜣ
- 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-ḫnr (“harem”)
- pr ẖrj (“downstairs”)
- pr-šnꜥ (“work camp”)
- pr-dwꜣt (“dressing room”)
- pr-dšr (“Treasury of Lower Egypt”)
- pr-ḏt (“funerary estate”)
- m prwj
- nbt-pr (“lady of the house”)
- r-pr
- ḥrj-pr
- ḥr-m-pr.f
- ḥrt-pr
- ḫt pr (“property”)
- zꜣ-pr
- smsw-pr
- grg pr
Descendants
- Demotic:
(pr)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)
References
- “pr (lemma ID 60220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 511.7–516.1
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89
- 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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