pr-dwꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ dwꜣt (“morning”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the morning’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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1. room for performing ablutions and ceremonially donning clothes and adornments, and where the Opening of the Mouth ritual is conducted; dressing room, robing room [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of pr-dwꜣt (masculine)

singular	pr-dwꜣt
dual	prwj-dwꜣt
plural	prw-dwꜣt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-dwꜣt  

pr-dwꜣt

References

• “pr-dwꜣ.t (lemma ID 60890)”, 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, page 516
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 425.10–425.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90