mẖr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛçɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: mekher

Noun

 m

1. food-storehouse, granary
   • c. 1800 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version R (pRamesseum A/pBerlin 10499, Recto) lines 1.3–1.4:

     šm swt ḫꜣ n.j nꜣ n jt ntj m pꜣ mẖr m ḏꜣt jt n sf

     Go and measure for me the barley that is in the barn as the remainder of yesterday’s barley.

Inflection

Declension of mẖr (masculine)

singular	mẖr
dual	mẖrwj
plural	mẖrw

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150.