pr

pr

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

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian (pr, “house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poːɾ/ (stressed), IPA^(key): /pəɾ/ (unstressed)

Noun

 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)

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

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Egyptian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic *par- (“house”).[1] Compare also Proto-Berber *farr (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾəʔ/ → /poːɾ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːɾuw/[2]
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːɾuw/
• (Medio-Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːɾəʔ/
• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /poːɾ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per

Noun

 m

1. house
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) line 158:

     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
3. (of the king) palace
4. (of gods) temple

Inflection

Declension of pr (masculine u-stem)

singular	pr
dual	prwj
plural	prw

Derived terms

• jmj-r prwj (“civil servant”)
• jmj-r pr (“steward”)
• jmt-pr (“last will and testament”)
• pryt (“collection of buildings, compound”)
• pr ꜥꜣ (“palace, Pharaoh”)
• pr ꜥnḫ (“temple library”)
• pr wꜣḏ (“city of Per-Wadjet”)
• pr wr (“the temple at Nekheb”)
• pr bjtj (“palace of the king of Lower Egypt”)
• pr-ms
• pr mḏꜣt (“library”)
• pr nw (“the temple of Wadjet at Per-Wadjet”)
• pr nbw (“treasury”)
• pr nfr (“mortuary”)
• pr n nḥḥ (“tomb”)
• pr nzr (“temple of Wadjet at Per-Wadjet”)
• pr-nswt (“palace, temple”)
• pr ḥrj (“upstairs”)
• pr-ḥḏ (“treasury”)
• pr ḫntj (“harem”)
• pr ẖrj (“downstairs”)
• pr šnꜥ (“work camp”)
• pr dwꜣt (“dressing room”)
• pr dšr (“Treasury of Lower Egypt”)
• pr-ḏt (“funerary estate”)
• nbt-pr (“lady of the house”)
• r-pr
• ḥrt-pr
• ḫt pr (“property”)

 

Descendants

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

References

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 15
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

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

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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