pr nfr
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pr (“house”) + nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr nɛfɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: per nefer
Noun
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- funerary workshop, mortuary, place where bodies are embalmed [since the Middle Kingdom]
- c. 2035–1990 BCE, late 11th Dynasty, Stele of Abkau (Louvre C15), line x+9:
- qrsw m ꜥš wꜣḏ zẖꜣ(.w) ḫt(.w) m ḥꜣt-ꜥ pr nfr wj m nbw n(j) sṯn ẖkr(.w) m ḫsbḏ mꜣꜥ mj jrrt n ꜣḫ ꜥpr(.w)
- A sarcophagus of fresh Cilician fir, painted and engraved as the foremost one of the funerary workshop, and a golden mummy case of distinction, decorated with true lapis lazuli, like what is done for an equipped akh-spirit.
- c. 2035–1990 BCE, late 11th Dynasty, Stele of Abkau (Louvre C15), line x+9:
Inflection
[edit]Declension of pr nfr (masculine)
| singular | pr nfr |
|---|---|
| dual | prwj nfrwj |
| plural | prw nfrw |
Alternative forms
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References
[edit]- “pr-nfr (lemma ID 60680)”, 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 517.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89