pr-šnꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ šnꜥw (“labor camp, storehouse”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the labor camp’, ‘house of the storehouse’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr ʃɛnɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: per-shena

Noun

 m

1. forced labor camp or workshop, labor establishment, often for captives and slaves [Old and Middle Kingdoms]
2. storehouse administration

Inflection

Declension of pr-šnꜥ (masculine)

singular	prwj-šnꜥ
dual	pr-šnꜥ
plural	prw-šnꜥ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-šnꜥ  

pr-šnꜥ	pr-šnꜥ

References

• “pr-šnꜥ (lemma ID 155901)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 508.21–508.25
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90