Egyptian
Etymology
pr (“house”) + ḥrj (“upper”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (usually in the plural) upper floor of a building, upstairs [Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]
- Antonym: pr ẖrj
Inflection
Declension of pr ḥrj (masculine)
| singular
|
pr ḥrj
|
| dual
|
prwj ḥrjwj, prwj ḥrwj
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| plural
|
prw ḥrjw, prw ḥrw
|
References
- “pr-ḥr.j (lemma ID 60770)”, 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, pages 511.9–511.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90