pr.sn

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ .sn (“their”), thus literally ‘their house’. The word in the sense of ‘home’ is distinguished from a simple reading of ‘their house’ by the lack of any antecedent to the suffix pronoun .sn (“their”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛrʔsɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: per.sen

Noun

 m

1. home
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pr,‎ .sn.

References

• Gunn, Battiscombe (1950) “An Egyptian expression for ‘home’” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 36, pages 111–112
• “pr⸗sn (lemma ID 650051)”, 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
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89