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Egyptian
Etymology
pr (“house”) + ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of life’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- temple scriptorium
Inflection
Declension of pr-ꜥnḫ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ꜥnḫ
References
- “pr-ꜥnḫ (lemma ID 550421)”, 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, page 515.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89
