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Anatolian   /ˌænətˈoʊliən/   Listen
Anatolian

noun
1.
An extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European.  Synonym: Anatolian language.






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"Anatolian" Quotes from Famous Books



... ostentatious interview, in which the conqueror, whose spirits were harmonized by success, affected the character of generosity. But his mind was insensibly alienated by the unseasonable arrogance of Bajazet; the complaints of his enemies, the Anatolian princes, were just and vehement; and Timour betrayed a design of leading his royal captive in triumph to Samarcand. An attempt to facilitate his escape, by digging a mine under the tent, provoked the Mogul emperor to impose a harsher restraint; ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... manners such as these that Ali Tepeleni was born. He boasted that he belonged to the conquering race, and that he descended from an ancient Anatolian family which had crossed into Albania with the troops of Bajazet Ilderim. But it is made certain by the learned researches of M. de Pouqueville that he sprang from a native stock, and not an Asiatic one, as he pretended. His ancestors were Christian Skipetars, who ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - ALI PACHA • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE



Words linked to "Anatolian" :   Indo-European language, Lycian, Hittite, Indo-European, Luwian, Indo-Hittite, Luvian, Lydian, Palaic



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