A meaning is suggested for the enigmatic Ugaritic word ủdn, which occurs in the Baʿal Cycle, on the assumption that it may be a loanword from Hittite

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Yet Another Hittite Loanword in Ugaritic? 
 
WILFRED G. E. WATSON 
Northumberland 
 
 
Abstract: A meaning is suggested for the enigmatic Ugaritic word ủdn, which occurs 
in the Baʿal Cycle, on the assumption that it may be a loanword from Hittite. 
 
Keywords: Baʿal Cycle, Hittite, Ugaritic. 
 
 
The obscure Ugaritic word ủdn, which occurs in a passage from the Epic of 
Ba
ʿ
al, has had a variety of explanations, none completely satisfactory.
1
 The text 
in question (KTU 1.3 iii 47–iv 3) runs as follows: 
 
ṭrd. bʕl. bmrym. ṣpn. He expelled Baʿal from the summit of Mount Ṣapunu, 
mšṣṣ kʕṣr ủdnh   driving (him) out like a bird from his ủ. 
gršh. lksỉ. mlkh   He ousted him from the throne of his kingship 
lnḫt. lkḥṯ. drkth   from the resting-seat2 of his dominion.3 
 
The various proposals for the meaning of ủdn are: 
 
(1) “ear” 
A sample translation is “who pecked his ear like a bird”.4 
– Critique: the expression remains obscure and has no parallels in other ancient 
Near Eastern traditions.
5
 
                                                 
1 E.g. “Nest, Lager”, “Schilf”, “Sockel” or “Stammsitz” (Tropper 2008: 13) or simply “Behausung” 
(Tropper 2012: 331 §54.423b). 
2 Here there is hendiadys; the literal meaning of lnḫt lkḥṯ is “from the resting-place, from the throne 
(of)”. 
3 Following Wyatt RTU, 80; for a translation as a question rather than a statetment see Smith / Pitard 
2009: 290-293: “The interpretation proposed in our translation sees the two bicola as questions, but 
Baal as the object of the verbs, and the enemy that Anat fears as the subject”. This does not affect 
the meaning of Ug. ủdn. 
4 Gibson 1978: 50; similarly, “golpeando como un pájaro sus orejas” (Del Olmo Lete 1981: 185); 
see also Aistleitner WUS §89 and §1835; Gordon UT §19.88, TOu 1, 169 and n. p, and Smith 1997: 
112.   
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(2) “nest” 
Dijkstra translates: “Is someone making him to leave his nest like a bird?”, 
commenting: “In this context the problematic ủdnh can hardly be anything else 
than ‘his nest’” as a metaphor for “dwelling” as in Num. 24:21, Prov. 27:8 and 
Akk. qinnu, “nest” (CAD Q, 257-260).6 In fact, the meaning “nest” had been 
proposed long ago by Hans Bauer and is generally accepted.
7
 
– Critique: however, as indicated by Sanmartín,8 none of the cognates that 
Dijkstra mentions has this meaning. Neither Heb. ʾeden, “pedestal, base” 
(HALOT, 16a) nor Aram. ʾuddāna, “Sessel” (Dalman 1922: 7) means “nest” 
and the meaning “Nest, Lager” cited for Akk. adattu (AHw, 12) is incorrect 
since it means “succulent part of reed (used as fodder)” (CDA, 4; CAD A/1, 
110).
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(3) “perch” 
Instead, Dietrich and Loretz proposed “Ruheplatz”, also based on Heb. ʾeden, 
“pedestal, base” and Aram. ʾuddāna, “armchair”, and translated the second 
couplet: 
 
Ist jemand, der Baal von den Höhen des Ṣpn vertreibt, 
der ihn wegscheucht wie einen Vogel von seinem Ruheplatz, etc.10 
 
This has been accepted by Wyatt (RTU, 80), who provides the slightly more 
lively translation: “knocking him like a bird from his perch”. 
– Critique: the imagery seems somewhat frivolous in the context, although in 
effect it is equivalent to the previous proposal. 
 
(4) “dominion” 
This meaning is based on parallelism with ksủ mlkh and kḥṯ drkth11 and the 
corresponding translation is: 
 
                                                                                                             
5 “Die Wiedergabe von udn mit “Ohr” hat mit der Schwierigkeit zu kämpfen, daß der Sinn der Rede 
völlig dunkel bliebe und hierfür keine Parallelen beizubringen wären” (Dietrich / Loretz 1982: 79). 
6 It can also have the transferred meanings of “family” and “clan”, but these seem irrelevant here. 
7 E.g. “Depriving like a bird of its nest” (Gordon 1949: 20, with italics denoting uncertainty) and 
most recently by Niehr (2015: 206): “der ihn ausgehen läßt wie einen Vogel (von) seinem Nest”. 
See also De Moor 1987: 12 (“aerie”) and similarly Hvidberg-Hansen 1990 I, 76 and II, 53 n. 88.  
8 Sanmartín 1978; also rejected by Dietrich / Loretz 1982: 79. 
9 However, note the line in a Sumerian poem: “Lest I make them (the people of Aratta) fly away like 
a bird from its permanent nest” (Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, line 116; translation: Vanstiphout 
2003: 63). 
10 Dietrich / Loretz 1982: 81. 
11 For the parallelism (ṣrrt) ṣpn // kḥṯ see KTU 1.6 i 57-58 and the discussion in Wyatt 1995: 231. 
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Who would chase him as a bird from his dominion?12 
 
The form of ủdn remains difficult. Sanmartín had explained Ug. ủdn as “ein 
*qutl-Abstraktum zu adn «Herr, Schutzpatron»”.13 Alternatively, ủdn, 
“dominion”, is simply a lexical allophone of ảdn, “lord”, as proposed by Del 
Olmo Lete.
14
 
– Critique: while certainly acceptable, this would be a unique occurrence of the 
word in Semitic. Also, a meaning seems to be required that is parallel to “Mount 
Ṣapunu” (see next solution). 
 
(5) “land, territory” 
Instead of any of the above, I suggest that Ugaritic ủdn is a loan from Hitt. udnē, 
“pays”15 / utnē-, utni-, “land”,16 in the sense of “territory, country”.17 The 
proposed translation of the passage in question, therefore, is: 
 
ṭrd. bʕl. bmrym. ṣpn.  A  He expelled Baʿal from the summit of Mount Ṣapunu, 
mšṣṣ kʕṣr ủdnh    A' making him flee his territory like a bird. 
gršh. lksỉ. mlkh    B He ousted him from the throne of his kingship, 
lnḫt. lkḥṯ. drkth    B' from the tranquil seat of his dominion. 
 
Here “Mount Ṣapunu” is parallel to “land” (A//A') just as “throne of kingship” is 
parallel to “seat of dominion” (B//B'). To some extent, the imagery of the first 
couplet is reflected in Assyrian royal inscriptions, e.g. ana gisallāt šadî šaqûti 
                                                 
12 Gray 1971: 317 and n. 9. It has been accepted by Pardee (1997: 252b), who translates: “... him 
who would have caused (him) to flee like a bird (from)(the seat of) his power”, but the plethora of 
brackets indicates some uncertainty here. Considerably more obscure is the rendering by Van Zijl 
(1972: 62): “One who makes trouble like birds his lordship (?)”, but with no mention of ủdn in his 
discussion (ibid. 64). 
13 Sanmartín 1971: 450. 
14 Del Olmo Lete 2014: 55; see also DUL, 20. 
15 Vanséveren 2006: 100, with discussion of etymology. 
16 EDHIL, 953; cf. HW, 237-238 (“Land”). Either spelling seems acceptable, but in any case the 
equivalence of Ug. /d/ to Hitt. /t/ would not be a problem. See, for example, Ug. dġt, “incense 
offering”, which is a loan from Hitt. tuḫḫuu̯ai-/tuḫḫui-, “smoke” (EDHIL, 895), as first proposed by 
De Moor 1970: 200; see Watson 2007: 120; DUL, 266. For the reflexes of Hittite dentals in Ugaritic 
see the discussion in Patri 2009: 96-102. 
17 Hitt. udnē, which occurs in the Proclamation of Anitta (lines 11, 38, 66 [as KUR]; for the text see 
Neu 1974 and for a recent translation see Hoffner 1997) and elsewhere (text references in Neu 1974: 
109-113), means “land, territory, country”. According to Oettinger (2000: 184), in the mountainous 
country of Anatolia, typically a “land” is the same as a river valley and similarly, Yakubovich 
(2008: 294) suggests that “it was restricted to mountainous areas, where river-valleys separated from 
each other by mountain ridges would be perceived as separate ‘countries’”. The other Hittite word in 
the same semantic field is tēkan-, takn-, but it means “earth” (EDHIL, 858-862) in the sense of “soil, 
ground”.  
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kīma iṣṣūrū ipparšu, “they flew like birds to the ledges of the high mountain” 
(AKA 42 ii 42); PN alāk girri[ia i]šmēma iṣṣūriš ipparišma, “PN heard of the 
approach of my campaign and flew away like a bird” (Lie 1929: 153); ilū 
ištarātu āšib libbišu iṣṣūriš ipparšuma, “the gods and goddesses who dwelt 
there [in a town] flew off like birds” (Borger 1956: 14).18 
To sum up, while the meaning “dominion” for Ug. ủdn remains a viable 
option, there is strong evidence that it may mean “land”, as in Hittite, as 
proposed here.
19
 Although there are several other Hittite loanwords in 
Ugaritic,
20
 it is difficult to determine why one was used in this particular text.
21
 
It may be significant that in the same passage kḥṯ, “throne” and possibly nḫt, 
“tranquil” are Hurrian.22 Since ủdn occurs only once in the whole Ugaritic 
corpus, no firm conclusions can be drawn and the matter remains undecided.
23
 
 
 
Abbreviations 
 
AHw W. von Soden: Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, vols. I-III 
(Wiesbaden 1965-1981). 
AKA E. A. W. Budge / L. W. King: The Annals of the Kings of 
Assyria, I (London 1902). 
CAD I. J. Gelb et al. (eds.): The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental 
Institute of the University of Chicago, vols. 1-21 (Chicago 
1956-2010). 
CDA J. Black / A. George / N. Postgate (eds.): A Concise 
Dictionary of Akkadian (Wiesbaden 2000
2
). 
                                                 
18 All as cited in CAD I/J, 209-212. Comparable similes in Sumerian are: “Beware lest I make [the 
people of Aratta] flee from their city like a dove from its tree” (Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, 
line 115; translation: Vanstiphout 2003: 63) and “Its [Eridu’s] lady, like a flying bird, left her city” 
(The Lament for Eridu, line 14; translation: Green 1978: 133). See also the imagery of Sennacherib 
making Hezekiah a prisoner in Jerusalem “like a bird in a cage” (cf. Cogan 2000: 303). 
19 Although originally it may have been Luwian (as *wadni : see Yakubovich 2008: 294-296), it was 
probably loaned through Hittite. For other Luwian loanwords in Ugaritic see Watson 2010: 832, 
833, 835, 837 and 840-841. 
20 For a survey see Watson 2007: 118-124 §2.3.01. 
21 Possibly, as suggested by Krzysztof Baranowski (University of Warsaw) in a personal 
communication by e-mail, the author may have been trying to impress his fellow scribes with his 
erudition, as most probably they could understand foreign words. 
22 For details see Watson 2007: 53, 97, 130, 100 n. 295, 151. 
23 I am indebted to Paola Dardano, Herbert Niehr, Norbert Oettinger, Jordi Vidal and Nicolas Wyatt 
for comments and/or help with references. The usual disclaimers apply. 
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DUL G. del Olmo Lete / J. Sanmartín: A Dictionary of the Ugaritic 
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HISTORIAE 12 (2015): 25-31                            Recibido: 17/07/2015    Aceptado: 22/07/2015 A      Yet Another Hittite Loanword in Ugaritic?  WILFRED G. E. WATSON Northumberland   Abstract: A meaning is suggested for the enigmatic Ugaritic word ủdn, which occurs in the Baʿal Cycle, on the assumption that it may be a loanword from Hittite.  Keywords: Baʿal Cycle, Hittite, Ugaritic.   The obscure Ugaritic word ủdn, which occurs in a passage from the Epic of Baʿal, has had a variety of explanations, none completely satisfactory.1 The text in question (KTU 1.3 iii 47–iv 3) runs as follows:  ṭrd. bʕl. bmrym. ṣpn. He expelled Baʿal from the summit of Mount Ṣapunu, mšṣṣ kʕṣr ủdnh   driving (him) out like a bird from his ủ. gršh. lksỉ. mlkh   He ousted him from the throne of his kingship lnḫt. lkḥṯ. drkth   from the resting-seat2 of his dominion.3  The various proposals for the meaning of ủdn are:  (1) “ear” A sample translation is “who pecked his ear like a bird”.4 – Critique: the expression remains obscure and has no parallels in other ancient Near Eastern traditions.5                                                  1 E.g. “Nest, Lager”, “Schilf”, “Sockel” or “Stammsitz” (Tropper 2008: 13) or simply “Behausung” (Tropper 2012: 331 §54.423b). 2 Here there is hendiadys; the literal meaning of lnḫt lkḥṯ is “from the resting-place, from the throne (of)”. 3 Following Wyatt RTU, 80; for a translation as a question rather than a statetment see Smith / Pitard 2009: 290-293: “The interpretation proposed in our translation sees the two bicola as questions, but Baal as the object of the verbs, and the enemy that Anat fears as the subject”. This does not affect the meaning of Ug. ủdn. 4 Gibson 1978: 50; similarly, “golpeando como un pájaro sus orejas” (Del Olmo Lete 1981: 185); see also Aistleitner WUS §89 and §1835; Gordon UT §19.88, TOu 1, 169 and n. p, and Smith 1997: 112.   WILFRED G. E. WATSON  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________   HISTORIAE 12 (2015): 25-31 26 (2) “nest” Dijkstra translates: “Is someone making him to leave his nest like a bird?”, commenting: “In this context the problematic ủdnh can hardly be anything else than ‘his nest’” as a metaphor for “dwelling” as in Num. 24:21, Prov. 27:8 and Akk. qinnu, “nest” (CAD Q, 257-260).6 In fact, the meaning “nest” had been proposed long ago by Hans Bauer and is generally accepted.7 – Critique: however, as indicated by Sanmartín,8 none of the cognates that Dijkstra mentions has this meaning. Neither Heb. ʾeden, “pedestal, base” (HALOT, 16a) nor Aram. ʾuddāna, “Sessel” (Dalman 1922: 7) means “nest” and the meaning “Nest, Lager” cited for Akk. adattu (AHw, 12) is incorrect since it means “succulent part of reed (used as fodder)” (CDA, 4; CAD A/1, 110).9  (3) “perch” Instead, Dietrich and Loretz proposed “Ruheplatz”, also based on Heb. ʾeden, “pedestal, base” and Aram. ʾuddāna, “armchair”, and translated the second couplet:  Ist jemand, der Baal von den Höhen des Ṣpn vertreibt, der ihn wegscheucht wie einen Vogel von seinem Ruheplatz, etc.10  This has been accepted by Wyatt (RTU, 80), who provides the slightly more lively translation: “knocking him like a bird from his perch”. – Critique: the imagery seems somewhat frivolous in the context, although in effect it is equivalent to the previous proposal.  (4) “dominion” This meaning is based on parallelism with ksủ mlkh and kḥṯ drkth11 and the corresponding translation is:                                                                                                               5 “Die Wiedergabe von udn mit “Ohr” hat mit der Schwierigkeit zu kämpfen, daß der Sinn der Rede völlig dunkel bliebe und hierfür keine Parallelen beizubringen wären” (Dietrich / Loretz 1982: 79). 6 It can also have the transferred meanings of “family” and “clan”, but these seem irrelevant here. 7 E.g. “Depriving like a bird of its nest” (Gordon 1949: 20, with italics denoting uncertainty) and most recently by Niehr (2015: 206): “der ihn ausgehen läßt wie einen Vogel (von) seinem Nest”. See also De Moor 1987: 12 (“aerie”) and similarly Hvidberg-Hansen 1990 I, 76 and II, 53 n. 88.  8 Sanmartín 1978; also rejected by Dietrich / Loretz 1982: 79. 9 However, note the line in a Sumerian poem: “Lest I make them (the people of Aratta) fly away like a bird from its permanent nest” (Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, line 116; translation: Vanstiphout 2003: 63). 10 Dietrich / Loretz 1982: 81. 11 For the parallelism (ṣrrt) ṣpn // kḥṯ see KTU 1.6 i 57-58 and the discussion in Wyatt 1995: 231. Yet Another Hittite Loanword in Ugaritic?  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________   HISTORIAE 12 (2015): 25-31 27 Who would chase him as a bird from his dominion?12  The form of ủdn remains difficult. Sanmartín had explained Ug. ủdn as “ein *qutl-Abstraktum zu adn «Herr, Schutzpatron»”.13 Alternatively, ủdn, “dominion”, is simply a lexical allophone of ảdn, “lord”, as proposed by Del Olmo Lete.14 – Critique: while certainly acceptable, this would be a unique occurrence of the word in Semitic. Also, a meaning seems to be required that is parallel to “Mount Ṣapunu” (see next solution).  (5) “land, territory” Instead of any of the above, I suggest that Ugaritic ủdn is a loan from Hitt. udnē, “pays”15 / utnē-, utni-, “land”,16 in the sense of “territory, country”.17 The proposed translation of the passage in question, therefore, is:  ṭrd. bʕl. bmrym. ṣpn.  A  He expelled Baʿal from the summit of Mount Ṣapunu, mšṣṣ kʕṣr ủdnh    A' making him flee his territory like a bird. gršh. lksỉ. mlkh    B He ousted him from the throne of his kingship, lnḫt. lkḥṯ. drkth    B' from the tranquil seat of his dominion.  Here “Mount Ṣapunu” is parallel to “land” (A//A') just as “throne of kingship” is parallel to “seat of dominion” (B//B'). To some extent, the imagery of the first couplet is reflected in Assyrian royal inscriptions, e.g. ana gisallāt šadî šaqûti                                                  12 Gray 1971: 317 and n. 9. It has been accepted by Pardee (1997: 252b), who translates: “... him who would have caused (him) to flee like a bird (from)(the seat of) his power”, but the plethora of brackets indicates some uncertainty here. Considerably more obscure is the rendering by Van Zijl (1972: 62): “One who makes trouble like birds his lordship (?)”, but with no mention of ủdn in his discussion (ibid. 64). 13 Sanmartín 1971: 450. 14 Del Olmo Lete 2014: 55; see also DUL, 20. 15 Vanséveren 2006: 100, with discussion of etymology. 16 EDHIL, 953; cf. HW, 237-238 (“Land”). Either spelling seems acceptable, but in any case the equivalence of Ug. /d/ to Hitt. /t/ would not be a problem. See, for example, Ug. dġt, “incense offering”, which is a loan from Hitt. tuḫḫuu̯ai-/tuḫḫui-, “smoke” (EDHIL, 895), as first proposed by De Moor 1970: 200; see Watson 2007: 120; DUL, 266. For the reflexes of Hittite dentals in Ugaritic see the discussion in Patri 2009: 96-102. 17 Hitt. udnē, which occurs in the Proclamation of Anitta (lines 11, 38, 66 [as KUR]; for the text see Neu 1974 and for a recent translation see Hoffner 1997) and elsewhere (text references in Neu 1974: 109-113), means “land, territory, country”. According to Oettinger (2000: 184), in the mountainous country of Anatolia, typically a “land” is the same as a river valley and similarly, Yakubovich (2008: 294) suggests that “it was restricted to mountainous areas, where river-valleys separated from each other by mountain ridges would be perceived as separate ‘countries’”. The other Hittite word in the same semantic field is tēkan-, takn-, but it means “earth” (EDHIL, 858-862) in the sense of “soil, ground”.  WILFRED G. E. WATSON  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________   HISTORIAE 12 (2015): 25-31 28 kīma iṣṣūrū ipparšu, “they flew like birds to the ledges of the high mountain” (AKA 42 ii 42); PN alāk girri[ia i]šmēma iṣṣūriš ipparišma, “PN heard of the approach of my campaign and flew away like a bird” (Lie 1929: 153); ilū ištarātu āšib libbišu iṣṣūriš ipparšuma, “the gods and goddesses who dwelt there [in a town] flew off like birds” (Borger 1956: 14).18 To sum up, while the meaning “dominion” for Ug. ủdn remains a viable option, there is strong evidence that it may mean “land”, as in Hittite, as proposed here.19 Although there are several other Hittite loanwords in Ugaritic,20 it is difficult to determine why one was used in this particular text.21 It may be significant that in the same passage kḥṯ, “throne” and possibly nḫt, “tranquil” are Hurrian.22 Since ủdn occurs only once in the whole Ugaritic corpus, no firm conclusions can be drawn and the matter remains undecided.23   Abbreviations  AHw W. von Soden: Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, vols. I-III (Wiesbaden 1965-1981). AKA E. A. W. Budge / L. W. King: The Annals of the Kings of Assyria, I (London 1902). CAD I. J. Gelb et al. (eds.): The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vols. 1-21 (Chicago 1956-2010). CDA J. Black / A. George / N. Postgate (eds.): A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (Wiesbaden 20002).                                                  18 All as cited in CAD I/J, 209-212. Comparable similes in Sumerian are: “Beware lest I make [the people of Aratta] flee from their city like a dove from its tree” (Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, line 115; translation: Vanstiphout 2003: 63) and “Its [Eridu’s] lady, like a flying bird, left her city” (The Lament for Eridu, line 14; translation: Green 1978: 133). See also the imagery of Sennacherib making Hezekiah a prisoner in Jerusalem “like a bird in a cage” (cf. Cogan 2000: 303). 19 Although originally it may have been Luwian (as *wadni : see Yakubovich 2008: 294-296), it was probably loaned through Hittite. For other Luwian loanwords in Ugaritic see Watson 2010: 832, 833, 835, 837 and 840-841. 20 For a survey see Watson 2007: 118-124 §2.3.01. 21 Possibly, as suggested by Krzysztof Baranowski (University of Warsaw) in a personal communication by e-mail, the author may have been trying to impress his fellow scribes with his erudition, as most probably they could understand foreign words. 22 For details see Watson 2007: 53, 97, 130, 100 n. 295, 151. 23 I am indebted to Paola Dardano, Herbert Niehr, Norbert Oettinger, Jordi Vidal and Nicolas Wyatt for comments and/or help with references. The usual disclaimers apply. Yet Another Hittite Loanword in Ugaritic?  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________   HISTORIAE 12 (2015): 25-31 29 CoS 1 W. W. Hallo / K. 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