nfr-nfrw-jtn

Egyptian

Etymology

nfr (“beautiful (one)”) +‎ nfrw (“beautiful ones”, plural of nfr) +‎ jtn (“Aten”) as a series of direct genitive constructions, thus literally ‘beautiful one of the beautiful ones of Aten’, i.e. ‘most beautiful one of Aten’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /nafnafɾəˈjaːtəj/

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /nafnafɾəˈjaːtəj/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛr nɛfɛruː itɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: nefer-neferu-aten

Proper noun

 f

1. a female given name, Neferneferuaten

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfr-nfrw-jtn  

nfr-nfrw-jtn

References

• Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen‎^[1], volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 197.9