pr-ms
Egyptian
Etymology
pr (“house”) + ms (later form of mst, the infinitive of msj (“to give birth”)) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of birth’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr mɛs/
- Conventional anglicization: per-mes
Noun
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m
- mammisi, a subsidiary chapel attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god
Inflection
Declension of pr-ms (masculine)
| singular | pr-ms |
|---|---|
| dual | prwj-ms |
| plural | prw-ms |
References
- “pr-ms (lemma ID 60620)”, 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 515.11
- Kockelmann, Holger (2011) “Mammisi (Birth House)” in Willeke Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles
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