pr-šnꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ šnꜥw (“labor camp, storehouse”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the labor camp’, ‘house of the storehouse’.

Pronunciation

Noun
pr
Sna

 m

  1. forced labor camp or workshop, labor establishment, often for captives and slaves [Old and Middle Kingdoms]
  2. storehouse administration

Inflection
Declension of pr-šnꜥ (masculine)
singular prwj-šnꜥ
dual pr-šnꜥ
plural prw-šnꜥ

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-šnꜥ  
pr
Sna		 A1B1
prSnapr
pr-šnꜥ pr-šnꜥ

References
  • “pr-šnꜥ (lemma ID 155901)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 508.21–508.25
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90
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