Definitions
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- noun The Semitic language of Ugarit.
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- proper noun The Northwest
Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria. Extinct since 1100 BCE, it was written incuneiform . - adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Ugarit.
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- noun an extinct Semitic language of northern Syria
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However, Garibay did analyze some Nahuatl passages which showed clearly a strong rhythmical pattern based partly on the linguistic structure of the Nahuatl language, partly on the stylistic use of parallel phrases or semantic couplets, such as we find in Ugaritic, Hebraic and other Semitic texts.
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However, Garibay did analyze some Nahuatl passages which showed clearly a strong rhythmical pattern based partly on the linguistic structure of the Nahuatl language, partly on the stylistic use of parallel phrases or semantic couplets, such as we find in Ugaritic, Hebraic and other Semitic texts.
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C. H. Gordon had raised the question whether the words kpt-r and ḥ-kpt may include some morphological elements, a preformative ḥ- and a sufformative -r, leaving kpt as the basic word Ugaritic Literature 1949, p.23 n.1, and relating this to Egyptian kft-yw.
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C. H. Gordon had raised the question whether the words kpt-r and ḥ-kpt may include some morphological elements, a preformative ḥ- and a sufformative -r, leaving kpt as the basic word Ugaritic Literature 1949, p.23 n.1, and relating this to Egyptian kft-yw.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Activating the brilliantine salacioubrooch given to him by the Waarghbeings of the Outer Dark, he quickly teleported to the Egypto-Ugaritic Life-torque meters.
Things People Like to Write About; Or, This Week is Already Off to a Bad Start 2009
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Interestingly, the comparable Ugaritic word thr means "pure."
Roger Isaacs: Japan's Radiation Contamination Protocols Align With Old Testament Laws Roger Isaacs 2011
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Meanwhile, proxy statements have gotten so incomprehensible, they might as well be written in Ugaritic.
A Chance to Veto a CEO's Bonus Jason Zweig 2011
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Still another looks at ancient languages like Ugaritic and Aramaic to see what might lie under the finished Hebrew and Greek texts.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War? Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011
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Still another looks at ancient languages like Ugaritic and Aramaic to see what might lie under the finished Hebrew and Greek texts.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War? Bishop Pierre Whalon 2011
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Regarding Ancient Ugaritic, Roger Woodard publishes in The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia 2008, p.31: The relative pronoun agrees in gender and number with its antecedent; whether the case of the relative pronoun itself is decided by the case of the antecedent or by the function of the relative pronoun in its clause cannot be determined ...
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