grg pr

Egyptian

Etymology

grg (“to set up, to found”) +‎ pr (“house, household”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛrɛɡ pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: gereg per

Verb

 compound

1. to establish a house (+ ḥr: on (a foundation)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. to found a household [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. (in particular) to get married [since the Middle Kingdom]

References

• “grg (pr) (lemma ID 168130)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 512.8
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 186.13–186.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 291