Hittite

See also: hittite

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Hitt.

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti.

In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as [script needed] (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /⁠nešumeneš⁠/, “people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.taɪt/

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• Hyphenation: Hit‧tite

Noun

Hittite (plural Hittites)

1. A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.

Derived terms

• Hittitologist
• Hittitology

Translations

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
• Finnish: heettiläinen (fi), heetti (fi)
• Galician: hitita m or f
• Georgian: ხეთი (xeti)
• German: Hethiter (de) m, Hethiterin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: Κητειοι (Kēteioi)

• Hungarian: hettita (hu) m or f
• 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 or f

• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: hettitt m

• Persian: هیتی (fa) (hiti)
• Polish: Hetyta (pl) m, Chittyta (pl) m, Chetyta (pl) m
• Portuguese: hitita (pt) m or f
• 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)

Proper noun

Hittite

1. An ancient Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested from the 16th century BC until the 13th century BC.
   • 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:

     The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^[sic] to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results […]

Translations

language

• Armenian: խեթերեն (hy) (xetʻeren)
• Catalan: hitita (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赫梯語／赫梯语 (Hètīyǔ)

• Czech: chetitština (cs) f
• Dutch: Hettitisch (nl) n
• Faroese: hittittiskt n
• Finnish: heetti (fi)
• French: hittite (fr) m
• Galician: hitita m
• Georgian: ხეთური (xeturi), ხეთური ენა (xeturi ena)
• German: Hethitisch (de) n
• Gujarati: હિત્તી (hittī)
• Hindi: हत्ती (hattī)
• Hittite: 𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷 (nišili)
• Hungarian: hettita (hu)
• Indonesian: Het
• Irish: Hitis f
• Italian: ittito m, hittito m
• Japanese: ヒッタイト語 (hittaito-go)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hîtîtî (ku) f

• Maori: Hiti
• Marathi: हित्ती (hittī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hettittisk

  Nynorsk: hettittisk m

• Polish: hetycki (pl) m
• Portuguese: hitita (pt) m
• Russian: хе́ттский язы́к (ru) m (xéttskij jazýk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хетитски m

  Roman: hetitski (sh) m

• Spanish: hitita (es) m
• Swedish: hettitiska (sv) c
• Tatar: Хетт (Xett)
• Turkish: Hititçe (tr)

Adjective

Hittite (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Hittite people.
2. Of or relating to the Hittite language.
3. Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 B.C.E..

Derived terms

• Indo-Hittite
• Proto-Hittite

Translations

of or relating to the Hittite people, language or kingdom

• Catalan: hitita (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赫梯 (Hètī)

• Coptic: ⲭⲉⲧⲧⲁⲓⲟⲥ (khettaios)
• Czech: chetitský
• Faroese: hittittiskur
• Finnish: heettiläinen (fi)
• Georgian: ხეთური (xeturi), ხეთების (xetebis)
• German: hethitisch (de)
• Irish: Hiteach (general), Hitise (language)
• Norwegian: hettittisk
• Polish: hetycki (pl) m
• Portuguese: hitita (pt) m or f
• Russian: хе́ттский (ru) (xéttskij)
• Spanish: hitita (es)
• Swedish: hettitisk
• Turkish: Hitit (tr)

See also

• Appendix:Hittite Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Hittite
• Category:Hittite language

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code hit (SIL)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.tit/

Noun

Hittite m or f by sense (plural Hittites)

1. Hittite