# PA-RO-SU (Parʿōš)

> personal or clan name, 'Flea'

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

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

## Commentary

HT 20 (GORILA I 37): heads a fraction list, the party slot of the same scribe's HT 16 (KA-KU-PA). RO writes rʿō with ʿ lost. Rival: parsu, a dry measure (Ug. prs), which the slot does not support. Hebrew clan Parʿōš (Ezra 2:3); Phoenician PRʿŠ 'Flea' (Benz 1972, 395); Amorite purʿušum 'flea' (Gelb 1980, glossary).

## Attestations

- [HT 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT20/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- 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

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