hittite in English

adjective
1
relating to the Hittites, their empire, or their language.
This brought Egypt into conflict with the equally expansionist Hittite empire.
noun
1
a member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from circa 1700 to circa 1200 bc.
The Capital of the Hittites was in Asia-Minor and it was called Hatttusa.
2
the Anatolian language of the Hittites, the earliest attested Indo-European language. Written in both hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts, it was deciphered in the early 20th century.
The paper dates the initial divergence of the Indo-European language family to 8700 years ago, with Hittite as the first language to split off.

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1. A Hittite inscription, you say?

2. Esau’s two Hittite wives (34, 35)

3. Kadesh, however, soon reverted to Hittite control because the Egyptians did not or could not maintain a permanent military occupation of Kadesh and Amurru which were close to the Hittite homelands.

4. Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, a warrior in King David's army

5. A Late Hittite Rock-Relief on the River Karasu" Anatolian Studies 27, 1977, pp. 167–173.

6. In time, Rebekah expressed the distress she would experience if their son Jacob was to marry a Hittite.

7. Hittite prosperity largely depended on their control of trade routes and natural resources, specifically metals.

8. Shevoroshkin have established that the language of the Carians belongs to the Hittite-Luwian (Luvian) group of Indo-European languages.

9. Interestingly, the Bicephalous eagle is a ubiquitous and truly ancient symbol with examples in Sumerian, Hittite and Babylonian

10. 10 words related to Albanian: Albania, Republic of Albania, European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European, Gheg, Gheg dialect, Tosk

11. Bathsheba is an Israelite, but because she was married to Uriah the Hittite, some interpreters thought that she was also a foreigner

12. 3:5 בַּת־שׁוּעַ), wife of David and mother of Solomon.Bathsheba was originally the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of David’s warriors

13. Bathsheba is one of the four women mentioned in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew, though she is not named but referred to as “the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”.

14. David asked his servants about her and was told she was Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of David’s mighty men (2 Samuel 23:39).

15. Per'izzites (21 Occurrences) of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, …

16. Ankara (formerly Angora) originally was a Hittite settlement and remained a provincial city throughout its history, except when it was made capital of the Celtic kingdom of Galatia (284 b.c.e

17. Bathsheba, also spelled Bethsabee, in the Hebrew Bible (2 Samuel 11, 12; 1 Kings 1, 2), wife of Uriah the Hittite; she later became one of the wives of King David and the mother of King Solomon.

18. Indo-European *t Assibilated to a (posterior) affricate before /i j/ in Hittite (see 19a), e.g., the suffix *-tjo-in [hante-t [??]ja] 'last', and [ha:nt [??]] 'in front' (from an earlier form with a final */i/).

19. In all of the Type C languages in our survey but two (i.e., Hittite [19a] and Dutch [19b]) /t/ Assibilates before /i/, but /j/ either does not occur at all or it does exist but it never surfaces after /t/ (as in 10c).

20. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three

21. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three

22. Indebted to Olson's "Song of Ullikummi" (a poem derived from the Hittite version of a Hurrian myth), Schwerner's fragmented, often humorous reconstruction of an ancient "original" is no more real than the Borgesian land of Uqbar--or the Captain's Log on Star Trek

23. The Amorites, in the name of their distant Hittite suzerains, were accordingly able to overrun the old Egyptian provinces on the east side of the Jordan; the Amorite chieftain Og possessed himself of Bashan (Deuteronomy 3:8), and Sihon, "king of the Amorites," conquered the northern part of Moab.

24. The generation of Indo-Europeanists active in the last third of the 20th century (such as Calvert Watkins, Jochem Schindler, and Helmut Rix) developed a better understanding of morphology and of ablaut in the wake of Kuryłowicz's 1956 Apophony in Indo-European, who in 1927 pointed out the existence of the Hittite consonant ḫ.

25. The Amorites, in the name of their distant Hittite suzerains, were accordingly able to overrun the old Egyptian provinces on the east side of the Jordan; the Amorite chieftain Og possessed himself of Bashan (Deuteronomy 3:8), and Sihon, "king of the Amorites," conquered the northern part of Moab.

26. Joseph is a fruitful Bough, even a fruitful Bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: Genesis 49:30 View whole chapter See verse in context In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham Bough t with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

27. The first time Bathsheba’s name is mentioned in the Bible is in 2 Samuel 11:3.The man whom King David sent to find out about her identified her as, “Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite” (2 Samuel 11:3).The prior verse says while she was bathing, the king was walking around on the roof of the palace and saw her.

28. Arse (n.) "buttocks, hinder part of an animal," Old English ærs "tail, rump," from Proto-Germanic *arsoz (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse ars, Middle Dutch ærs, German Arsch "buttock"), from PIE root *ors-"buttock, backside" (source also of Greek orros "tail, rump, base of the spine," Hittite arrash, Armenian or "buttock," Old Irish err "tail").