pr-mḏꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ mḏꜣt (“book, scroll, document”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the scroll’, ‘house of the book’.

Pronunciation

Noun
pr
Z1		 Y1
t Z1

 m

  1. library, archive

Inflection
Declension of pr-mḏꜣt (masculine)
singular pr-mḏꜣt
dual prwj-mḏꜣt
plural prw-mḏꜣt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-mḏꜣt  
pr
Y1
pr
Z1		 Y1
t Z1		 V12
pr
Z1		 Y1
t Z1		 V12
pr
pr-mḏꜣt pr-mḏꜣt pr-mḏꜣt

References
  • “pr-mḏꜣ.t (lemma ID 60630)”, 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, page 515.12
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 187.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89
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