LUWIAN

Meaning of LUWIAN in English

/looh"ee euhn/ , n.

1. an extinct ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform.

adj.

2. of or pertaining to Luwian.

[ 1920-25; Luwi nation of ancient Asia Minor + -AN ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

LUWIAN — noun Etymology: Luwi, an ancient people of the southern coast of Asia Minor Date: 1924 an Anatolian language of the …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LUWIAN — I. ˈlüwēən adjective also lu·ian ˈlüyən ; or lu·vi·an -üvēən Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Luwi + English -an, adjective suffix …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LUWIAN — noun Etymology: Luwi, an ancient people of the southern coast of Asia Minor Date: 1924 : an Anatolian language of …
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LUWIAN — [Lu.wi.an] n [Luwi, an ancient people of the southern coast of Asia Minor] (1924): an Anatolian language of the Indo-European …
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LUWIAN — also called Luite member of an extinct people of ancient Anatolia. The Luwians were related to the Hittites and were …
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LUWIAN — Лувийский язык
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LUWIAN — Pronunciation: ' lü- ē - ə n Function: noun Etymology: Luwi, an ancient people of the southern coast of Asia …
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LUWIAN LANGUAGE — also called Luvian, or Luish, extinct Indo-European language primarily of the southern part of ancient Anatolia. It was closely related …
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LUWIAN LANGUAGE — Лувийский язык
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ANATOLIAN LANGUAGES — Branch of the The attested Anatolian languages are Hittite, Palaic, Luwian (Luvian), Hieroglyphic Luwian, Lycian, and Lydian. Hittite, by far …
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LUVIAN — adjective see luwian I
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LUIAN — Usage: usually capitalized variant of luwian
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HIEROGLYPHIC HITTITE — an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, written in a pictographic script in Syria c1200-c600 B.C.: the same …
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ANATOLIAN — /an'euh toh"lee euhn/ , adj. 1. of or pertaining to Anatolia, its inhabitants, or their language. 2. of, pertaining to, …
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TARHUN — also spelled Taru, Tarhu, Tarhunt, Tarhunna, or Tarhuis, ancient Anatolian weather god. His name appears in Hittite and Assyrian records …
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PALAIC LANGUAGE — ancient Indo-European language of northwest Anatolia. Modern knowledge of the language comes from 21 passages dealing with the cult of …
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LYDIAN LANGUAGE — extinct Indo-European language of ancient Lydia, in the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. The texts, most of …
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LYCIAN LANGUAGE — extinct language of southwestern Asia Minor (now Turkey), written in an indigenous Lycian alphabet based on a West Greek prototype. …
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HITTITE LANGUAGE — most important of the extinct Indo-European languages of Anatolia; it was closely related to Luwian, Lydian, Lycian, and Palaic. Hittite …
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HITTITE HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING — system of pictographic writing used in the Syrian Hittite states for writing an eastern dialect of the Luwian language (q.v.) …
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ANATOLIAN LANGUAGES — extinct Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages spoken in Anatolia from sometime in the 3rd millenium BC until the early centuries of …
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ANATOLIA — Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asiatic portion of Turkey. Because of …
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ANATOLIAN LANGUAGES — Branch of the Indo-European language family spoken in Anatolia in the 2nd1st millennia BC. The attested Anatolian languages are Hittite, …
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LANGUAGE — Synonyms and related words : Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro-Asiatic, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Anatolic, …
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ENGLISH — Synonyms and related words : Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquin, Amharic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, …
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LANGUAGE — n. 25B6; noun the structure of language : SPEECH, writing, communication, conversation, speaking, talking, talk, discourse; words, vocabulary. the English …
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ARMA — [Other] Arma is the Hittite and Luwian moon god. He is portrayed with a crescent on his horned cap, and …
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ЛУВИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК — Luwian language
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