pr-ms

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ms (later form of mst, the infinitive of msj (“to give birth”)) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of birth’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. mammisi, a subsidiary chapel attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god

Inflection

Declension of pr-ms (masculine)

singular	pr-ms
dual	prwj-ms
plural	prw-ms

References

• “pr-ms (lemma ID 60620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515.11
• Kockelmann, Holger (2011) “Mammisi (Birth House)” in Willeke Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles