Hittitology

[ hit-ahy-tol-uh-jee ]

noun

1. the study of Hittite language and culture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hittitology¹

First recorded in 1950–55; Hittite + -o- + -logy

Example Sentences

Hittitology's like Egyptology; it's stopped being research and archaeology and become scholarship and history.

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