# PI-TA-JA (Pitaya)

> personal name, hypocoristic in -ya

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

- Reading: Pitaya
- 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: [PI-TA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-JA/index.md>)

## Commentary

A recipient in the HT 6a fig list, PI-TA-JA 24. Pitaya, a hypocoristic in -ya on √p-t-ḥ 'open', as Amorite PATIḤ-UM. Rival: the Egyptian personal name ptjj.

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>)

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