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Anitta

Anitta proper noun: name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).

Proper noun

Anitta (plural Anittas)

  1. name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).

Forms of Anitta

pluralAnittas

Origin of Anitta

From Hittite [script needed] (Anitta). The etymology of the name is unknown; neither demonstrably Indo-European nor clearly of non-Indo-European origin.

Questions about Anitta

What does Anitta mean?
Anitta means name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).
What part of speech is Anitta?
Anitta is a proper noun.

Words near Anitta in the dictionary

  1. anitism
  2. anito
  3. anitos
  4. anitrazafen
  5. anitrogenous
  6. Anitta
  7. anituber
  8. anitubers
  9. anitwt
  10. anitya
  11. Aniwa

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