For example, the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's name means "Effective for Aten" and Joseph probably means "God Will Add."

So, in ancient times, if you knew a Akhenaten or Joseph, you're friend's full name wasn't an abstracted sound referring to a person or persons, it was an entire sentence. Sometimes a mission statement, sometimes just kind of a...parable. This seems really strange to me, but I'm coming from a culture where names are mostly meaningless sounds that just happen to identify people.

My question is this: what would someone close to an Akhenaten, Joseph, or any other person with a sentence for a name have called that person on a day-to-day, casual or intimate way?

Here are the options, as I see them, using Akhenaten as the example:

1. The whole sentence. "That Effective-for-Aten sure can dig a well."

2. Some part of the whole name that still formed a recognizable word. "I heard Effective is getting married."

3. A meaningless fragment that can be said quickly. "Ak, stop! I see a lion!"

4. Something else entirely.

P.S. I used Joseph and Akhenaten simply because they came to mind. I'm interested in any culture here.

P.P.S. This is a repost of sorts, from over [here[(http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2puuox/what_did_pharaohs_wife_call_him/), where I didn't think my question through very well.