Egyptian
Etymology
smsw (“eldest”) + pr (“house, estate”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘eldest of the house, eldest of the estate’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- an official title: ‘elder of the domain’ [Old Kingdom]
Inflection
Declension of smsw-pr (masculine)
| singular
|
smsw-pr
|
| dual
|
smswwj-pr
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| plural
|
smsww-pr
|
References
- “sms.w-pr (lemma ID 450532)”, 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
- 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