pr ḥrj

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ḥrj (“upper”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr hɛri/
  • Conventional anglicization: per heri

Noun

 m

1. (usually in the plural) upper floor of a building, upstairs [Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]

   Antonym: pr ẖrj

Inflection

Declension of pr ḥrj (masculine)

singular	pr ḥrj
dual	prwj ḥrjwj, prwj ḥrwj
plural	prw ḥrjw, prw ḥrw

References

• “pr-ḥr.j (lemma ID 60770)”, 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, pages 511.9–511.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90