Hittite

1. A member of an ancient people living in Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000-1200 B.C.
2. The Indo-European language of the Hittites.

[From Hebrew ḥittî, from Akkadian ḫatti, from Hittite Hatti, land of the Hattians (indigenous inhabitants of Anatolia), of Proto-Hattic (language of the Hattians) origin.]

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the principal language of the Anatolian group

Hittite may refer to:

• Hittites, ancient Anatolian people
• Neo-Hittite states, Iron Age successors to the Hittite people located in modern Turkey and Syria
• Hittite language, ancient Indo-European language
• Biblical Hittites, also known as the "Children of Heth"
• History of the Hittites

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