mẖr

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛçɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: mekher

Noun

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food-storehouse, granary
- c. 1800 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version R (pRamesseum A/pBerlin 10499, Recto) lines 1.3–1.4:
  
  šm swt ḫꜣ n.j nꜣ n jt ntj m pꜣ mẖr m ḏꜣt jt n sf
  Go and measure for me the barley that is in the barn as the remainder of yesterday’s barley.

Inflection

Declension of mẖr (masculine)

singular	mẖr
dual	mẖrwj
plural	mẖrw

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150.

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