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Hittite

[ US /ˈhɪˌtaɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture
NOUN
  1. the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions
  2. a member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC

How To Use Hittite In A Sentence

  • For example, the conquering Hittite King Shuppiluliuma I 1344–1322 B.C. stopped in southeastern Anatolia to review his troops and chariots before continuing onward to his goal, the siege of the city of Carchemish. The Trojan War
  • Here were found a number of statues bearing cuniform inscriptions, Hittite inscriptions and two long Aramean inscriptions of the VIII or IX century B.C. M. Helévy, the well-known French Orientalist, was sent by the The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • He conquered the lands up to Carchemish, but an Egyptian-Hittite treaty signed in 1283, which divided Syria between them, frustrated the Assyrians 'westward movement. E. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans
  • In light of Hittite militu- 'honeysweet'2, a characteristically Indo-European u-stem adjective derived from milit- 'honey', there should be no doubt where the first element comes from. Archive 2009-12-01
  • To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
  • Hittite, for example, died out when its civilisation disappeared in Old Testament times.
  • We can now readily see from the above list that Hittite's 3ps preterite is identical to the experiential form sigmatic aorist, complete with the long *ē vocalism that tags non-punctive verbs. Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
  • Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class?
  • ‘No ice,’ concluded a lengthy report written by a bloke in, for no discernible reason, Ancient Hittite cuneiform.
  • Secondly, if Hittite had lost voicing as a distinctive feature of the language, let's say, while retaining fortis-lenis contrast word-initially, then using voicing distinctions in a foreign system may not have necessarily appealed to the Hittite scribes. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
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