# PA-RO-SU (Parʿōš)

> personal or clan name, 'Flea'

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

- Reading: Parʿōš
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṗVrɣVṯ- ~ \*ṗVrṯaɣ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2264/index.md>) 'flea'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · RO (ro) · SU (su)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: Parʿōš (פַּרְעֹשׁ), a clan, 'the sons of Parʿōš' (Ezra 2:3; HALOT 971); parʿōš 'flea' (1 Sam 24:15)
- Phoenician: *PRʿŠ* — PRʿŠ 'Flea', a name element (Benz 1972, 395)
- Ugaritic: prġt, a name (Benz 1972, 395)
- Amorite: *purʿušum* — purʿušum 'flea'; PURʿUŠ-AN-U, PU-UR-ḪU-ŠA-NU, Mari (Gelb 1980, no. 5184)

## Attestations

- [HT 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT20/index.md>): PA-RO-SU — personal or clan name, 'Flea' (heading)

## Commentary

HT 20 (GORILA I 37): PA-RO-SU · heads six fraction entries (KU-MA-JU ¼, QE-KU-RE · DI ½, *21M ⅛, SA-RE-JU ⅛, WA ¼, *188+KU ½). The same scribe's HT 16 has the same layout under KA-KU-PA ·, a party, so the heading names the recipient. Parʿōš 'flea', the clan of Ezra 2:3 (HALOT 971); RO writes rʿō with ʿ lost. Rival: parsu 'portion, dry measure' (Ug. prs, DULAT 671), which leaves RO unexplained. HT 104 .3–4 PA-DA-SU-TI 29 is a candidate for PA-RO-SU-TI, this name with -TI, in a list of X-TI entries (GORILA I 171; Schoep 2002, 47). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT; GORILA I; Schoep 2002
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Benz, Frank L. (1972), Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions. Studia Pohl 8,Biblical Institute Press
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- 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
- Schoep, Ilse (2002), The Administration of Neopalatial Crete: A Critical Assessment of the Linear A Tablets and Their Role in the Administrative Process. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca (Minos Suplemento 17)

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