# PA-JA (Pay)

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

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Pay
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Egyptian; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [PA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-JA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Egyptian Pꜣjj, the first element of PA-JA-RE, a common name under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II (PNM v6). Rival: a Semitic hypocoristic. See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 41a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT41a/index.md>)

## References

- 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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