Mitannian

[ mi-tan-ee-uhn ]

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the Mitanni kingdom.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Mitannians or the Mitanni kingdom.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mitannian¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; Mitanni + -an

Example Sentences

As far as can at present be judged, the language of the Hittites was Aryan, and the similar terminations in such Kassite312 words as are known point to its being of the same family, and the same may, perhaps, be said of Mitannian.313 The excavations at Boghaz-Köi began where fragments of tablets had already been found, namely, on the slope of the hill at Böyük-kale, the documents becoming more complete as the explorers went higher.

From Project Gutenberg

The Tell-el-Amarna letters reveal the fact that Egyptian monarchs had married princesses from Mitanni, and the famous Akhenaton had Mitannian blood in his veins.

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Thus one of the tablets we possess contains a list of Kassite or Kossean words with their signification; in other cases we have Mitannian, Elamite, and Canaanite words quoted, with their meanings attached to them.

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Now that it is certain that Tyi was no Mitannian, but a native Egyptian, that door is closed, and we must suppose either that Egyptian art suddenly and spontaneously Page 186 awakened to a new style of vision and execution, from which, again, it as suddenly departed, or else that some foreign influence was working strongly upon the rigid Egyptian convention, modifying and vivifying it.

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If the Kassite invaders crossed the Tigris soon after the raid of the Mitannian Hittites they must have previously overrun a great part of Elam, but strongly situated Susa may have for a time withstood their attacks.

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