pr

Etymology edit

From Egyptian (pr, “house”).

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /pʰoːɾ/ (stressed), IPA^(key): /pəɾ/ (unstressed)

Noun edit

 m

1. temple
2. house
3. palace

Usage notes edit

This word is almost entirely restricted to compounds. Contrary to earlier Egyptian, the ordinary word for house in Demotic is ꜥ.wy.

Alternative forms edit

• (pr)

Descendants edit

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)

References edit

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 132
• Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic‎^[1], 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

Etymology edit

Possibly from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *par- (“house”).^[1] Compare also Proto-Berber *farr (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation edit

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per

Noun edit

 m

1. 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!

2. household, inhabitants of a house collectively
3. property collectively, possessions, estate
4. (Late Egyptian) garden or estate as a piece of land
5. (of the king) palace
6. (of gods) temple
7. (of gods) temple property and administration, temple estate
8. (of the dead) tomb
9. (usually with qualifying word) building with some other particular use
10. (rare) nest (of the bꜣybꜣy insect) [Medical Papyri]
11. case, chest, holder (for ointments, bows, mirrors, etc.)

Inflection edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr  

pr

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

• Demotic: (pr)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)

References edit

• “pr (lemma ID 60220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], 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^[3], 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

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

pr

1. the sound of an object cracking

References edit

• pr in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN