ꜥmr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ʕVmˈrij/ → /ʕVmˈrij/ → /ʕamˈreʔ/ → /ʕamˈreʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕVmˈrij/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕVmˈrij/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕamˈreʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕamˈreʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːmɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: amer

Noun

 m

1. temple bakery [New Kingdom to Late Period]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥmr (masculine)

singular	ꜥmr
dual	ꜥmrwj
plural	ꜥmrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥmr  

ꜥmrw	ꜥmr

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥmr, ꜥmre
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲉ (amre)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲗⲏ (amlē)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲉ (amre), ⲁⲙⲣⲏ (amrē)

References

• “ꜥmr (lemma ID 37890)”, 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
• “ꜥmr (lemma ID 37910)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], 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^[3], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 187.2
• Darnell, John Coleman (1989) “The Chief Baker” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 75, pages 216–219