| 释义 |
Kanesian|kəˈniːʒən|
[Irreg. f. Kanesh, ancient city of Asia Minor + -ian.]
The principal dialect of Hittite, also called Kaneshite.
1921[see Nesite]. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods xiii. 302 The official language of the [Hittite] empire has been named by its discoverers Nashili or Kanesian. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments i. 4 Lydian, the language of the Lemnian inscription, and Etruscan are all three closely interrelated and belong, like Kanesian, to that early (though post-Luvian) stage of I.-E. |