Get to know Ugaritic better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Ugaritic in a sentence
Ugaritic meaning
The Northwest Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria. Extinct since 1100 B.C.E., it was written in cuneiform.
Synonyms of Ugaritic
Using Ugaritic
- The main meaning on this page is: The Northwest Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria. Extinct since 1100 B.C.E., it was written in cuneiform.
- Useful related words include: canaanitic, canaanitic language.
- In the example corpus, ugaritic often appears in combinations such as: the ugaritic, ugaritic texts, and ugaritic.
Context around Ugaritic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ugaritic
- In this selection, "ugaritic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, finno, dozen, mysterious, texts, new and custom stand out and add context to how "ugaritic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dozen ugaritic tablets from and and the ugaritic new year. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ugaritic" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ugaritic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, a dozen Ugaritic tablets from the fourteenth century BC preserve the alphabet in two sequences. (16 words)
However, some verbs were borrowed (along with many nouns) from Aramaic and Ugaritic, both of which are Semitic languages. (19 words)
Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root. (21 words)
Academic views De Moor has suggested that there are links between Sukkot and the Ugaritic New Year festival, in particular the Ugaritic custom of erecting two rows of huts built of branches on the temple roof as temporary dwelling houses for their gods. (43 words)
The son who is born of this union, called Demarûs or Zeus, but once called Adodus, is obviously Hadad, the Ba‘al of the Ugaritic texts who now becomes an ally of his grandfather Sky and begins to make war on Ēl. (42 words)
The earliest known Ugarit contact with Egypt (and the first exact dating of Ugaritic civilization) comes from a carnelian bead identified with the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senusret I, 1971 BC–1926 BC. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
Academic views De Moor has suggested that there are links between Sukkot and the Ugaritic New Year festival, in particular the Ugaritic custom of erecting two rows of huts built of branches on the temple roof as temporary dwelling houses for their gods.
Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root.
For example, in the Ugaritic texts, ʾil mlk is understood sfn to mean "Ēl the King" but ʾil hd as "the god Hadad ".
However, a dozen Ugaritic tablets from the fourteenth century BC preserve the alphabet in two sequences.
However, some verbs were borrowed (along with many nouns) from Aramaic and Ugaritic, both of which are Semitic languages.
It appears in similar contexts in Ugaritic texts where the expression bn ’il alternates with bn ’ilm, but both must mean 'sons of Ēl'.
Levant Though the Ugaritic site is thought to have been inhabited earlier, Neolithic Ugarit was already important enough to be fortified with a wall early on.
The earliest known Ugarit contact with Egypt (and the first exact dating of Ugaritic civilization) comes from a carnelian bead identified with the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senusret I, 1971 BC–1926 BC.
The mysterious Ugaritic text Shachar and Shalim tells how (perhaps near the beginning of all things) Ēl came to shores of the sea and saw two women who bobbed up and down.
The son who is born of this union, called Demarûs or Zeus, but once called Adodus, is obviously Hadad, the Ba‘al of the Ugaritic texts who now becomes an ally of his grandfather Sky and begins to make war on Ēl.
The subjunctive is marked in forms which do not end in a vowel by the suffix -u (compare Arabic and Ugaritic subjunctives), but is otherwise unmarked.
Ugaritic texts from Ras Shamra and Enkomi mention Ya, the Assyrian name of Cyprus, that thus seems to have been in use already in the late Bronze Age.
Common combinations with ugaritic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: