pr-ꜥnḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of life’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr ɑːnx/
  • Conventional anglicization: per-ankh

Noun

 m

1. temple scriptorium

Inflection

Declension of pr-ꜥnḫ (masculine)

singular	pr-ꜥnḫ
dual	prwj-ꜥnḫ
plural	prw-ꜥnḫ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ꜥnḫ  

pr-ꜥnḫ	pr-ꜥnḫ

References

• “pr-ꜥnḫ (lemma ID 550421)”, 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 515.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89