| Definitions | | Hittite |
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noun
- (countable) a person of the Hittite Kingdom.
- (uncountable) the Hittite language.
adjective - Of or relating to the Hittite people.
- Of or relating to the Hittite language which is derived from Proto-Indo-European.
- Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 BCE.
Etymology: Coined erroneously in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighbouring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as hasili. It is now known that the Hittites called themselves nesili "pertaining to the city of Nesa", hence the less popular alternative name Nesite or Neshite.
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