pr-ḏt
Egyptian
Etymology
pr (“house”) + ḏt (“eternity”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘house of eternity’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr d͡ʒɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: per-djet
Noun
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- funerary estate, foundation or endowment for the maintenance of a tomb [since the Old Kingdom]
- tomb itself
Inflection
Declension of pr-ḏt (masculine)
| singular | pr-ḏt |
|---|---|
| dual | prwj-ḏt |
| plural | prw-ḏt |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ḏt
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| pr-n-ḏt | pr-n-ḏt | ||||||
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References
- “pr-ḏ.t (lemma ID 550341)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 514.4–514.5
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 510.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 89–90
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