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An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria
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ugaritic
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, "pertaining to Ugarit," ancient city of northern Syria, and especially to the Semitic language first discovered there 1929 by Claude Schaeffer, from Ugarit , which probably is ultimately from Sumerian ugaru "field."
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Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language , discovered by French archaeologists in 1929. It is known almost only in the form of writings found in the ruined city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), Syria . It has been used by scholars of the Hebrew Bible to clarify ...
Usage examples of ugaritic.
Hence, she is also important in Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Ugaritic myths, which are all descended from the Sumerian.
Her name in Ugaritic, 'atiratu yammi' means 'she who treads on (the) sea (dragon).