Hittite

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Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti.[1] In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /⁠nešumeneš⁠/, people from the city of Nesha), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɪ.taɪt/
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  • Hyphenation: Hit‧tite

Noun

Hittite (plural Hittites)

  1. A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.

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Proper noun

Hittite

  1. An ancient Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested from the 16th century BC until the 13th century BC.
    • 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:
      The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results []

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Adjective

Hittite (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Hittite people.
  2. Of or relating to the Hittite language.
  3. Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 B.C.E..

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References

  1. ^ Lewis, Pereltsvaig (2015): The Indo-European Controversy, p. 118

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Noun

Hittite m or f by sense (plural Hittites)

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