pr-ḏt

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ḏt (“eternity”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘house of eternity’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. funerary estate, foundation or endowment for the maintenance of a tomb [since the Old Kingdom]
2. tomb itself

Inflection

Declension of pr-ḏt (masculine)

singular	pr-ḏt
dual	prwj-ḏt
plural	prw-ḏt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ḏt  

pr-n-ḏt	pr-n-ḏt
	[sic]

References

• “pr-ḏ.t (lemma ID 550341)”, 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, pages 514.4–514.5
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 510.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 89–90