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

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
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