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

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7.5 THE NUMBERS
Ugaritic <strong>Primer</strong>
Numbers are adjectives that are bound to or in apposition to the
noun numbered. Ugaritic has cardinal and ordinal numbers.
Numbers also may be written logographically, especially in
administrative texts. The vertical wedge expresses “one” (e.g., y =
6), and the “Winckelhaken” (o) “ten.” Tens are written before the
ones (oy = 16). However, numbers usually are spelled out even in
administrative texts.
7.5.1 Cardinal Numbers
There are two forms for each of the cardinals (as in Hebrew), one
with a -t suffix and one without a suffix. The Ugaritic numbers
exhibit the commonly attested “Semitic Polarity” of the numbers
three to ten, in which the form these numbers with a final -t, and
thus appearing to be feminine, modifies masculine nouns and the
form without -t modifies feminine nouns.
Feminine Masculine
1 aht