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Egyptian
Etymology
jmj-r (“overseer”) + pr (“house”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of the house’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- steward; administrator of an estate/house, wealth, property, etc.
Inflection
Declension of jmj-r-pr (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-r-pr
Derived terms
References
- “jm.j-rʾ-pr (lemma ID 400013)” and “jm.j-rʾ-pr (lemma ID 855668)”, 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 514.10–514.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18, 89
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93.
