mammisi

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noun

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

OriginFrench mammisi ← cop-boh *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ ← Egyptian pr-ms →
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Meanings

nounmammisi (plural mammisis)

plural mammisis

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

Origin

  1. Egyptianpr-ms“mammisi”
  2. cop-boh*ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ
  3. Frenchmammisi
  4. Englishmammisi

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”).

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APA

mammisi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mammisi

MLA

“mammisi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mammisi. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mammisi,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mammisi.

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