pꜣ-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-n-nwt

Egyptian

Etymology

pꜣ (“the”) +‎ sbꜣ (“star”) +‎ ḫꜥ (“appearing”) +‎ n (“in”) +‎ nwt (“city”), thus literally ‘the star appearing in the city’, a reference to Thebes.

Greek Ψουσέννης (Psousénnēs) reflects the later (Demotic-era) shift of /ḫ/ → [ʃ] in [pəsiβʃəʕənˈneːʔə]. The preposition m appears as n due to assimilation with nwt.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pəˈsiːβə χəʕənˈneːʔə/
• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɑ sɛbɑ xɑː ɛn nuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: pa-seba-kha-en-nut

Proper noun

 m

1. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Psusennes I, a pharaoh of the Twenty-First Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pꜣ-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-n-nwt  

pꜣ-sbꜣ-ḫꜥw-nwt	pꜣ-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-n-nwt	p-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-n-nwt	p-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-nwt	p-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-nwt	pꜣ-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ-nwt

References

• Ranke, Hermann (1935), Die ägyptischen Personennamen‎, volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 117.1
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013), Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 139, 141, 143
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984), Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 98–100, 253–256