Anitta

Meaning

Proper Noun

• name of a king of ancient Kussara. The earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. The author of the 'Anitta text' - the oldest known text in the Hittite language (the oldest known Indo-European text altogether).

Origin

• From Hittite. The etymology of the name is unknown; neither demonstrably Indo-European nor clearly of non-Indo-European origin.