pr-dwꜣt
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]pr (“house”) + dwꜣt (“morning”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the morning’.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr duːɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: per-duat
Noun
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- room for performing ablutions and ceremonially donning clothes and adornments, and where the Opening of the Mouth ritual is conducted; dressing room, robing room [since the Old Kingdom]
Inflection
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-dwꜣt
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References
[edit]- “pr-dwꜣ.t (lemma ID 60890)”, 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 516
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 425.10–425.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90