mammisi
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French mammisi, a neologism coined by Jean-François Champollion as if from Bohairic Coptic *ⲙⲁⲙ̄ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (*mam̄misi) (a term otherwise unattested), from ⲙⲁ (ma, “place”) + ⲛ̄- (n̄-, “of”) + ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (misi, “birth”) as a calque of earlier Egyptian pr-ms (“mammisi”, literally “house of birth”).
Noun[edit]
mammisi (plural mammisis)
- (Egyptology) a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god
References[edit]
- Kockelmann, Holger (2011) “Mammisi (Birth House)” in Willeke Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles