ꜣḫ-n-jtn
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ꜣḫ (“effective”) + n (“for”) + jtn (“sun-disc, Aten”), thus literally meaning ‘Effective for the Aten’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
[edit](reconstructed Medio-Late Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈʔuːχəʔ nə ˈjaːtəj/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑx ɛn itɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: akh-en-aten
Proper noun
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- 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
[edit]- 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.