# PA-JA (Pay)

> personal name; Egyptian pꜣ.jj, the first element of PA-JA-RE

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Pay
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: PA (pa) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: pꜣ.jj, a name borne by men and women, late 12th–18th Dynasty before Amenhotep IV (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142610149; Ranke I, 129.4)

## Attestations

- [HT 41a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT41a/index.md>): MI-DA-NI PA-JA 2 double mina

## Commentary

HT 41a .4 MI-DA-NI · PA-JA 2 and two fraction signs, both signs whole and undotted, the last line of the face (GORILA I 79). Egyptian Pꜣjj is a common name, borne under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II among others (PNM v6, s.v. pꜣjj); PA-JA-RE (HT 8b, 29, 88, ZA 10b) reads Pꜣjj-Rꜥ with the same JA. Egyptian two-consonant names are many, so the match rests on the identity with PA-JA-RE. Rival: a Semitic hypocoristic. Two signs; one attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Egyptian

## References

- Reading: Ilin-Tomich 2025 (PNM v6), s.v. pꜣjj; di Mino
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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