FromBiblical Hebrewחִתִּי(ḥittî), fromHittite𒄩𒋾(ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related toHatti.[1] In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to theBiblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboringHattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as[script needed](ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍(ne-šu-me-né-eš/nešumeneš/,“people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative nameNesite orNeshite.
- IPA(key): /ˈhɪ.taɪt/
- Hyphenation:Hit‧tite
Hittite (pluralHittites)
- A person of the Hittite Kingdom, aBronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.
person
- Armenian:խեթ (hy)(xetʻ),քետացի(kʻetacʻi)(Biblical Hittite)
- Catalan:hitita (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:赫梯人(hètīrén)
- Coptic:ⲭⲉⲧⲧⲁⲓⲟⲥ(khettaios)
- Czech:Chetit (cs) m
- Dutch:Hettiet m,Hittiet m
- Finnish:heettiläinen (fi),heetti (fi)
- Galician:hitita m orf
- Georgian:ხეთი(xeti)
- German:Hethiter (de) m,Hethiterin (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek:Κητειοι(Kēteioi)
- Hungarian:hettita (hu) m orf
- Irish:Hiteach m
- Italian:ittita (it) m,ittito m,hittita m,hittito m,eteo m
- Japanese:ヒッタイト(hittaito)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish:hîtît m orf
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk:hettitt m
- Persian:هیتی (fa)(hiti)
- Polish:Hetyta (pl) m,Chittyta (pl) m,Chetyta (pl) m
- Portuguese:hitita (pt) m orf
- Russian:хетт (ru) m(xett),хеттей(xettej)(Biblical Hittite)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:Хетит m
- Roman:Hetit m
- Spanish:hitita (es),hetita,heteo
- Swedish:hettit (sv) c
- Turkish:Hitit (tr),Eti (tr)
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Hittite
- An ancientIndo-European language of theAnatolian branch, attested from the 16th centuryBC until the 13th century BC.
1920,Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, inClassical Philology, volume15, number 2,→DOI, page185:The study of the main body ofHittite texts was intrusted[sic] to the Austrian scholarHrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
Hittite (notcomparable)
- Of or relating to the Hittite people.
- Of or relating to the Hittite language.
- Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400B.C.E..
of or relating to the Hittite people, language or kingdom
- ^Lewis, Pereltsvaig (2015): The Indo-European Controversy, p. 118
Hittite m orfby sense (pluralHittites)
- Hittite
