jmj-r-pr

Egyptian

Etymology

jmj-r (“overseer”) +‎ pr (“house”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of the house’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi ɛr pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi-er-per

Noun

 m

1. steward; administrator of an estate/house, wealth, property, etc.

Inflection

Declension of jmj-r-pr (masculine)

singular	jmj-r-pr
dual	jmjwj-r-pr
plural	jmjw-r-pr

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-r-pr  

jmj-r-pr	jmj-r-pr

Derived terms

• jmj-r-pr-wr

 

References

• “jm.j-rʾ-pr (lemma ID 400013)” and “jm.j-rʾ-pr (lemma ID 855668)”, 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 514.10–514.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18, 89
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93.