pr-ḥḏ

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ḥḏ (“silver”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of silver’. However, this may be a reanalysis, and the name may have originally been intended as pr (“house”) +‎ ḥḏ (“white”), thus ‘white house’, in contrast to the treasury of Lower Egypt, pr-dšr (literally “the red house”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˌpaɾuwˈħicʼ/ → /ˌpaɾuwˈħitʼ/ → /pəɾəˈħetʼ/ → /pəɾəˈħetʼ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˌpaɾuwˈħicʼ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˌpaɾuwˈħitʼ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /pəɾəˈħetʼ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /pəɾəˈħetʼ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr hɛd͡ʒ/
  • Conventional anglicization: per-hedj

Noun

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1. treasury [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of pr-ḥḏ (masculine)

singular	pr-ḥḏ
dual	prwj-ḥḏ
plural	prw-ḥḏ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ḥḏ  

pr-ḥḏ

[Middle Kingdom]

References

• “pr-ḥḏ (lemma ID 60780)”, 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 518.3–518.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90