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See also: Pr, PR, .pr, -pr-, P.R., Pr., pr., and P+R

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian
pr
Z1
(pr, “house”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pr m

  1. temple
  2. house
  3. palace

Usage notes

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

Alternative forms

  • pr-2 (pr)

Descendants

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

References

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

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

Noun

pr
Z1

 m

  1. house
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) line 158:
      aHaa
      n      		 D&d n
      f      		 n&A1 sn
      b t      		 zp
      y      		 n&D z
      nDs      		 A1rprZ1k
      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)
  11. case, chest, holder (for ointments, bows, mirrors, etc.)

Inflection

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

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr  
pr
pr

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “pr (lemma ID 60220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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, 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
  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) “*par-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pr

  1. the sound of an object cracking

References

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