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

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Note that the syntax of these lines, S-V-O, follows “good” Ugaritic
or, should we say, Northwest Semitic style and syntax. In contrast,
Akkadian generally places the verb last in the sentence.
3. /}agdana bina nargana/ AGDN son of NWGN
This first PN has an -n suffix, which is common in NWS. As the
first person mentioned in the family, his patronymic accompanies
the PN.
4. /wa-yanhama }ah˙aœhu/ and YNH¸M his brother
This second person’s name comes from the root nhm. Since the PN
looks like a verbal form, one might expect /yinhama/ inobservance
of Barth’s Law, which predicts that a short /a/ vowel in this context
would weaken to an /i/, but perhaps the PN remained /yanhama/
because of the generally conserve nature of PNs. Additionally, one
expects a vowel to occur after the -n-; thus we would have
something like /yanahama/ since the -n- did not assimilate the
following consonant.
The writing of the word “brother” in KTU 1.12:II:50 as }ah˙yh,
with the y as mater lectionis for a long ˆä, suggests that, as in
Akkadian (abu > abuœka) and Hebrew (bDa > ÔKyIbDa), the ending of
this family term is long before a pronominal suffix.
5. /waba{lana }ah˙aœhu/ and B{LN his brother,
Person #3.
6. /wahattatana binahu/ and H¸TTN his son,
Person #4.
7. /wabatasûiya bittahu/ and BTSÁY his daughter,
Person #5.
8. /wa}isûtar}ummiya/ and }Isûtar}ummiya,