pr-nswt

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Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house, palace”) +‎ nswt (“king”) in a direct genitive construction. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌpaɾuwnijˈsiːwat/ → /ˌpaɾuwnijˈsiːjaʔ/ → /pəɾənəˈsiːʔə/ → /pəɾənəˈsiːʔ/

Noun

swt
n		 pr
Z1

 m

  1. royal palace
    Synonym: ꜥḥ
  2. (rare) a kind of royal palace contrasted with pr-bjtj, traditionally rendered as ‘palace of the king of Upper Egypt’
  3. royal court, king together with his household and entourage
  4. central administration, royal bureau
  5. temple (as the palace of a god)
    Synonym: ꜥḥ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-nswt  
pr
Z1		 swt
n
swt
pr
swpr
Z1
O64
pr-nswt pr-nswt pr-nswt pr-nswt

References

  • “pr-nswt (lemma ID 400419)”, 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 513.3–513.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 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 221.
  • Gardiner, Alan (1953) “The Coronation of King Ḥaremḥab” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol.39, pages 24–25
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