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mammisi

mammisi noun: a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god.

Noun

mammisi (plural mammisis)

  1. a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god

Forms of mammisi

pluralmammisis

Origin of mammisi

Borrowed from French mammisi, a neologism coined by Jean-François Champollion as if from Bohairic Coptic *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (*mam̀misi) (a term otherwise unattested), from ⲙⲁ (ma, “place”) + ⲛ̀- (ǹ-, “of”) + ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (misi, “birth”) as a calque of earlier Egyptian pr-ms (“mammisi”, literally “house of birth”).

Questions about mammisi

What does mammisi mean?
Mammisi means a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god.
What part of speech is mammisi?
Mammisi is a noun.
What is the plural of mammisi?
The plural of mammisi is mammisis.

Words near mammisi in the dictionary

  1. mammillotectal
  2. mammillotegmental
  3. mammillothalamic
  4. mammilotegmental
  5. mammilothalamic
  6. mammisi
  7. mammisis
  8. mammitides
  9. mammitis
  10. mammo
  11. mammo-

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