pr-mḏꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ mḏꜣt (“book, scroll, document”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the scroll’, ‘house of the book’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. library, archive

Inflection

Declension of pr-mḏꜣt (masculine)

singular	pr-mḏꜣt
dual	prwj-mḏꜣt
plural	prw-mḏꜣt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-mḏꜣt  

pr-mḏꜣt	pr-mḏꜣt	pr-mḏꜣt

References

• “pr-mḏꜣ.t (lemma ID 60630)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515.12
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 187.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89