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The word payḫu, occurring only in Middle Babylonian texts from Nuzi and denoting a type of land, is most probably a loanword from Hurrian. As such, it has been analysed as a derived noun *pai from the base pa- “to build” (BGH 285) with the adjectival suffix -ġe, yielding pa-i-ġe “used for building”. The fact that the word is found many times in a unified form and was Akkadianized with the help of the nominative ending -u indicates that we are dealing with a deeply rooted loanword in the local Akkadian.

Derived words: mupazziru ‘smuggler’ (CAD M₂ 210, AHw. 674); mušapzirtu (a poetic term for door, lit. the one which hides) (CAD M₂ 260, AHw. 681); napzaram ‘clandestinely’ (CAD N₁ 328); pazirtu ‘smuggling’ (CAD P 313); pazriš ‘secretly’ (CAD P 313, AHw. 1582); pazru (paziru) ‘hidden’ (CAD P 313, AHw. 852); pazzurtu ‘concealment, contraband’ (CAD P 314, AHw. 852); puzru ‘concealment, shelter’ (CAD P 556, AHw. 885); puzzuru ‘concealed’ (CAD P 559, AHw. 885); tapzīrtu ‘concealment’ (CAD T 197, AHw. 1323).
The spelling with ŠA-based signs of the element *puzur- in early personal names probably suggests *ḏ in the prototype, but no semantically suitable WS cognates of the shape *pḏr have been detected so far.

No etymology can be suggested.

Or pasnannu. No etymology can be suggested.

No definitive etymology can be proposed.

Most probably a WS loanword (EDA I 75)

Var.: paḫû. No etymology can be suggested.

Fem. peḳḳūtu.