pr-ꜥnḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of life’.

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. temple scriptorium

Inflection

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

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ꜥnḫ  
pr-ꜥnḫ pr-ꜥnḫ

References

  • “pr-ꜥnḫ (lemma ID 550421)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515.6
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89
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