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/hˈɪtaɪt/ /hˈɪtˌaɪt/ Listen

Hittite

adjective

Of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture.

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"Hittite" Quotes from Famous Books

... holy one,' is shown as a nude goddess standing on a lion; she may be a form of Ashtaroth, as patroness of the qedosheth girls attached to her service. The position on a lion is a well-known one of Hittite goddesses. ...

— The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie

... my guilt may be guessed from the fact that many of my Mentor's explanations are Hittite to me. People talking of laying up a wretched old age by not playing, I should be laying it up for other people if I did play much. Half-crown points, a partner who knows how to score (those counters and candlesticks, or the machines with little bone ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 19, 1892 • Various

... Minor. They were a non-Semitic people. The great victory of Ramses (1320 B.C.) was with difficulty won. The Hittites were also rivals of the Assyrians from an early period. At length Sargon captured their capital, Carchemish (717 B.C.), and broke down their power. Numerous Hittite inscriptions have been discovered, written in a hieroglyphic script which has not yet ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

Words linked to "Hittite" : dweller, habitant, Anatolian, Indo-Hittite, Anatolian language, indweller, denizen, inhabitant