Stop borrowing! : Plosives in Some Anatolian loans in Ugaritic

The presentation is focused on the representations of stop consonants in Anatolian (Hittite and Luwian) loans in Ugaritic, and what these representations can teach us about early Anatolian and Indo-European phonology; lately, Northwest Semitic consonantal reflexes in such loans have been an important area for discussion given the many uncertain-ties of the actual realization of Anatolian stops and their relations to the greater IE family. I intend to provide some new ideas based on this data. Then, some of these questions will be analyzed in the context of (as well as used to elucidate) some especially difficult words from the Ugaritic mythological texts, specifically grdš, appearing in the Kirta Epic and often translated along the lines of “erode” (used of the hero Kirta’s family line), but for which I will suggest a different meaning involving an Anatolian loan, and ztr, a word for a sort of cultic object mentioned in the list of filial obligations in the Epic of Aqhat