Egyptian
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Etymology
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pr (“house”) + šnꜥw (“labor camp, storehouse”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the labor camp’, ‘house of the storehouse’.
Pronunciation
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- forced labor camp or workshop, labor establishment, often for captives and slaves [Old and Middle Kingdoms]
- storehouse administration
Inflection
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Declension of pr-šnꜥ (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-šnꜥ
References
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- “pr-šnꜥ (lemma ID 155901)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 508.21–508.25
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90