smsw-pr

Egyptian

Etymology

smsw (“eldest”) +‎ pr (“house, estate”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘eldest of the house, eldest of the estate’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛmsuː pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: semsu-per

Noun

 m

1. an official title: ‘elder of the domain’ [Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of smsw-pr (masculine)

singular	smsw-pr
dual	smswwj-pr
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