Egyptian edit

Etymology edit

pr (house) +‎ ḥḏ (silver) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of silver’. However, this may be a reanalysis, and the name may have originally been intended as pr (house) +‎ ḥḏ (white), thus ‘white house’, in contrast to the treasury of Lower Egypt, pr-dšr (literally the red house).

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌpaɾuwˈħicʼ//ˌpaɾuwˈħitʼ//pəɾəˈħetʼ//pəɾəˈħetʼ/

Noun edit

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  1. treasury [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection edit

Alternative forms edit

References edit

  • pr-ḥḏ (lemma ID 60780)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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, page 518.3–518.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90