Hittite
Americannoun
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a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
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an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, preserved in cuneiform inscriptions of the second millennium b.c.
adjective
noun
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a member of an ancient people of Anatolia, who built a great empire in N Syria and Asia Minor in the second millennium bc
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the extinct language of this people, deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions found at Boǧazköy and elsewhere. It is clearly related to the Indo-European family of languages, although the precise relationship is disputed
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Etymology
Origin of Hittite
1600–10; < Hebrew ḥitt ( īm ) Hittite (compare Hittite Khatti ) + -ite 1
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Archaeological digs for Hittite antiquities aimed to provide the new republic with a past rooted even more deeply than Greece and Italy.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
The agreement confirmed Hittite control of Syria and Egyptian dominance over the Phoenician ports of the eastern Mediterranean.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
However, little more than fifty years later, the once-powerful Hittite Empire collapsed, never to reappear.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
This preparation served him well, for soon he faced a Hittite and northern Mesopotamian threat to Egypt’s control in Syria and Palestine.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Hittite, cuneiform and old Aramaean monuments were found with many small objects, most of which have been taken to Berlin; but no Hittite inscriptions came to light.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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