Hittitology

[ hit-ahy-tol-uh-jee ]

noun

1. the study of Hittite language and culture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hittitology¹

First recorded in 1950–55; Hittite + -o- + -logy

Example Sentences

You mean you're going to throw away everything you've accomplished in Hittitology and start all over again here on Mars?

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And as for throwing away what I've accomplished in Hittitology, I don't know what the devil you're talking about.

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Martiology was a new field; if Selim entered it, he would bring with him the reputation he had already built in Hittitology, automatically stepping into the leading role that Lattimer had coveted for himself.

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Hittitology's like Egyptology; it's stopped being research and archaeology and become scholarship and history.

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You could have anything you wanted, in Hittitology.

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