The Lion Gate of Hattusa

Chicago Hittite Dictionary

Project Type Research Project
Status Active
Field Domain Lexicography
Time Period Bronze Age
Regions Turkey

Overview

The Chicago Hittite Dictionary opens access to the earliest preserved Indo-European language. Written in cuneiform on clay tablets from ancient Anatolia, Hittite preserves a remarkable record of political life, religion, law, ritual, diplomacy, literature, and everyday experience from the second millennium BC. Begun at ISAC in 1975, the CHD is a comprehensive Hittite-English dictionary documenting the full vocabulary known from published Hittite texts. Each entry brings together meanings, spellings, variant forms, grammatical information, and examples of usage, situating words within their linguistic, historical, and cultural contexts. Published letter by letter in print and online as the eCHD, the dictionary is an essential reference for scholars, students, and all who study the ancient Near East.

The Lion Gate of Hattusa

The Lion Gate of Hattusa

The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Team

The Chicago Hittite Dictionary has always been a collaborative scholarly enterprise. Today’s CHD team carries forward this tradition of Hittitological research, editorial rigor, and philological care, advancing the dictionary letter by letter while making the language, texts, and cultural world of ancient Anatolia accessible to new generations of readers, researchers, and students.

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