A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru

Letters 73
This noun might be singular or plural, masculine or feminine.
Since it is not clear what this word is, the vocalization is uncertain.
The singular may be /marhaq(a)ta/um(a/i)/ and the plural
/marhaqaœtam(a/i)/. 33 This form would be analogous to the Hebrew
qDjrRm. This word might be composed of a feminine noun, rhqt, plus
the adverbial particle -ma. Segert suggested /mir-rahuq(a)ti-ma(?)/,
composed of the preposition /min/, written /mirr- < *minr-/,
“from,” appended to a feminine noun “distance,” followed by a
particle /-ma/. 34 While Segert’s suggestion appears plausible,
especially recalling the Hebrew qwøjrEm, “from afar,” there is no
Hebrew preposition Nm in Ugaritic. One should be cautious about
proposing a solution to a problematic word by means of positing a
new, and heretofore, unacknowledged Ugaritic preposition.
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qlny. This is a 1cdual verb in the “suffix conjugation.” (Note that
the Hebrew “perfect” is also a suffix conjugation.) The G suffix
conjugation paradigm can be seen in Figure 3.11.
G singular dual plural
3m mlk /malaka/ mlk /malakaœ/ mlk /malakuœ/
3f mlkt /malakat/ mlkt /malak(a)taœ/ mlk /malakaœ/
2m
2f
mlkt /malakta/
mlkt /malakti/
mlktm /malaktumaœ/
mlktm
/malaktum(uœ)?/
mlktn
/malaktina?/
1c
mlkt
/malaktu/
mlkny
/malakniyaœ ?/
Figure 3.11 G Suffix Conjugation
33 Sivan, Grammar, 71, 197.
34 Segert, BGUL, 82.1.
*mlkn
/malaknuœ?/