pr

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

English

Adjective

pr

Abbreviation of present.

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian

(pr, “house”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʰoːɾ/ (stressed), IPA^(key): /pəɾ/ (unstressed)

Noun

m

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^[1], 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

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾuw/ → /ˈpaːɾə/ → /poːɾ/

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

Noun

m

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!
household, inhabitants of a house collectively
property collectively, possessions, estate
(Late Egyptian) garden or estate as a piece of land
(of the king) palace
(of gods) temple
(of gods) temple property and administration, temple estate
(of the dead) tomb
(usually with qualifying word) building with some other particular use
(rare) nest (of the bꜣybꜣy insect) [Medical Papyri]
case, chest, holder (for ointments, bows, mirrors, etc.)

Inflection

Declension of pr (masculine u-stem)

singular	pr
dual	prwj
plural	prw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr

pr

Derived terms

jmj-r-pr (“steward”)
jmt-pr (“last will and testament”)
pr.sn (“home”)
pryt (“collection of buildings, compound”)
pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, Pharaoh”)
pr-ꜥnḫ (“temple scriptorium”)
pr-ꜥḥꜣw (“arsenal”)
pr-wꜣḏ (“city of Per-Wadjet”)
pr-wr (“the temple at Nekheb”)
pr-bꜣstt
pr-bjtj (“palace of the king of Lower Egypt”)
pr-mꜣ
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-ḫnr (“harem”)
pr ẖrj (“downstairs”)
pr-šnꜥ (“work camp”)
pr-dwꜣt (“dressing room”)
pr-dšr (“Treasury of Lower Egypt”)
pr-ḏt (“funerary estate”)
m prwj
nbt-pr (“lady of the house”)
r-pr
ḥrj-pr
ḥr-m-pr.f
ḥrt-pr
ḫt pr (“property”)
zꜣ-pr
smsw-pr
grg pr

Descendants

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

References

“pr (lemma ID 60220)”, 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, pages 511.7–516.1
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89

^ 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
^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pr

the sound of an object cracking

References

pr in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →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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