# PI-TA-JA (Pitaya) > personal name, hypocoristic in -ya A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Pitaya - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*pVtaḥ-]() 'open, begin' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: PI (pi) · TA (ta) · JA (ja) ## Compared forms - Amorite: PATIḤ-UM, PATIḤ-AH (Gelb 1980, nos. 5160–5161), under PTḤ 'open' (Gelb AS 21, 28) - Hebrew: *Pəṯaḥyâ* — Pəṯaḥyâ 'Yahweh has opened (the womb)' (HALOT 989) ## Attestations - [HT 6a](): PI-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. ## In the onomasticon - [PI-TA-JA](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Ilin-Tomich 2025 - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - 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 - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-JA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.