Egyptian
Other romanization schemes
| Manuel de Codage
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Ax-n-itn
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| Gardiner 1927
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ꜣḫ-n-ꞽtn
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| Erman & Grapow 1926
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ꜣḫ-n-ꞽtn
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| Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)
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aχ-en-ȧten
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Etymology
From ꜣḫ (“effective”) + n (“for”) + jtn (“sun-disc, Aten”), thus literally meaning ‘Effective for the Aten’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed Amarna-period Late Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈʔuːχəʔ nə ˈjaːtəj/
Proper noun
m
- a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by the 14th century BCE pharaoh Akhenaten, possible father of Tutankhamon and founder of Atenism
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 201.