grg pr

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • 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
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