ꜣḫ-n-jtn

Egyptian

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	Ax-n-itn
Gardiner 1927	ꜣḫ-n-ꞽtn
Erman & Grapow 1926	ꜣḫ-n-ꞽtn
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)	aχ-en-ȧten

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/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑx ɛn itɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: akh-en-aten

Proper noun

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1. 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.