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

1.14:ii, 50 mddth.k}irby
1.14:ii, 51 [t]s¥kn.s¥d
Literary Texts 129
6.4.3. Notes (KTU 1.14)
7 bt/[m]lk, compare to Akkadian bit h˙umri (“house of Omri”) or
dwd tyb.
8 }itdb is a mistake for }it (from }bd). “to destroy.”
10 htkn “our prince/sire” with the 1cp suffix -n referring to
storyteller and audience. It is also possible that this is a 3ms
suffix (see line 28).
rs¥, sometimes compared to the Arabic rws¥, “to increase,” but it
is better to compare it to the Hebrew rs¥s¥, “to crush.”
11 grds¥, aquadraliteral root. Compare Hittite gurtas¥, “fortress,”
which must be taken as a feminine, i.e., with mknt
“established.”
12 ypq, from pwq “to find.” Compare Prov. 18:22, hÎwhyEm Nwøxr qRpÎ¥yÅw
bwøf aDxDm hDÚvIa aDxDm; also see Yahimilk inscription, lines 6–7;
Yahaumilk inscription, line 9. See the recently discovered
inscription from Tell Dan (line 5).
15 }akn, error for tkn, or so read.
16 mtltt, the preformative m- is difficult to explain.
Grammatically, it should be a fraction, but it makes more
sense as a multiplicative.
ktrm, perhaps a people, or a social class. Some compare it with
the Syriac ks¥r}, “health,” but this makes little sense. Perhaps
it is to be related with childbirth (e.g., Wyatt, Religious Texts,
181).
zblnm, this is also sometimes understood as a people, but note
that zbl is a regular epithet of Baal.
18 y}itsp, from }sp, Gt prefix-conjugation; compare Psan, “to be
gathered (to one’s fathers) ” in Biblical Hebrew.
20 ms¥b{thn, possible to read either ms¥b{thn with hn as a 3fp suffix
or ms¥b{t hn with hn as a vocative particle.
21 ttpl, perhaps from npl Gt 3mp.
22 htkp, correct to htk, and note the graphic similarity