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say it: HIT-ahyt
hittite is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC
the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions
of or relating to the Hittite people or their language or culture
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hittite come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.