Hittite
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- adjective
- /ˈhɪtaɪt/
- We know from the royal archives of the Hittite Empire, found a century ago at Bogazkoy in central Turkey, that a prince was sent to Egypt to marry the widow of Tutankhamun, but he was murdered on the border of Egypt.
- Hittite Empire
Examples
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Reconstructing the temple yet again, the new architects seem to have reoriented the building along Hittite lines.
Academic text (2009) -
Furthermore, according to Hittite records, there were political and military tensions around Troy precisely during the thirteenth and early twelfth centuries B.C. - the supposed time of Homer's Trojan War.
Academic text (2004) -
It's a copy of a Hittite inscription.
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- A Hittite inscription, you say?
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The Hittite Empire of Anatolia was destroyed.
Fiction book (1994) -
O. R. Gurney's study of Hittite culture provides a great deal of information about the institutions and the laws of the Hittites.
Academic text (1991) -
Similar statues guard the entrances to Hittite temples and city gates far to the north.
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The Hittite Empire crumbled around 1190 B.C. After a series of civil wars, a complicated tapestry of peoples and languages emerged in the region.
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"The Hittites conquered Mitanni, but ultimately the Hurrians won the day," says Billie Jean Collins, a Hittite specialist at Emory University.
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The archaeologist discovered a collection of Hittite artifacts in the ancient ruins of Anatolia.
Compounds
- Specialized
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A suggested early group of languages that includes Indo-European and ancient Anatolian languages
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hittite as an adjective comes from the same place-name Hatti, so when we call something Hittite we mean it is from the people, language, or culture of that ancient 'land'.