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Egyptian
Etymology
ḥrj (“(one) being above”) + pr (“house”), thus ‘one who is above the house’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (male) majordomo, head domestic servant
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrj-pr
References
- “ḥr.j-pr (lemma ID 400392)” and “ḥr.j-pr (lemma ID 855734)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 515.1–515.2
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 174
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 70
