PI-TA-JA

personal name, hypocoristic in -ya

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Reading
Pitaya
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*pVtaḥ- ‘open, begin’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • AmoritePATIḤ-UM, PATIḤ-AH (Gelb 1980, nos. 5160–5161), under PTḤ ‘open’ (Gelb AS 21, 28)
  • HebrewPəṯaḥyâPəṯaḥyâ ‘Yahweh has opened (the womb)’ (HALOT 989)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 6aPI-TA-JA 24

Commentary

HT 6a .2–3 PI-TA-JA 24, intact, in a fig list after DA-TA-RA · TE · NI 15 (GORILA I 13). √p-t-ḥ ‘open’ with ḥ unwritten: Amorite PATIḤ-UM, PA-TE-ḪU-UM, and PATIḤ-AH, PA-TI-ḪA (Gelb 1980, nos. 5160–5161), Hebrew Pəṯaḥyāh. Rival: the Egyptian personal name pt.jj (Ilin-Tomich 2025, s.v.). One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon