Where does “אתון” come from?

אתון (Hebrew) comes from Egyptian jtn — the disc of any celestial body, including the...

אתון (Hebrew): jenny

Definitions

  1. jenny

Ancestry of “אתון”, step by step

אתון traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Egyptian jtn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Egyptianjtnthe disc of any celestial body, including the...

via Proto-Semitic ʔatān-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semiticʔatān-female donkey, jenny
Every word from Egyptian jtn