Egyptian

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Etymology

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smsw (eldest) +‎ pr (house, estate) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘eldest of the house, eldest of the estate’.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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  1. an official title: ‘elder of the domain[Old Kingdom]

Inflection

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References

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  • sms.w-pr (lemma ID 450532)”, 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
  • Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 3305
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515.3