"Traditional name"
The name Tiye is commonly a female name.
Tiye is an ancient Egyptian name, carried most famously by the 18th Dynasty queen who was the wife of Amenhotep III and the mother of Akhenaten. Egyptian inscriptions give the name in forms that modern scholars transliterate as Tiy, Tiyi and Tiye, and the queen is attested from the 14th century BCE. No meaning is asserted here because the etymology of the Egyptian word behind the name is not securely established.
The pronunciation of Tiye is TEE-yay.
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