Hittite -ili(s) name suffix; Indo-European???
From: C. Darwin Goranson
Message: 48266
Date: 2007-04-05
I'd like to know if the suffix in names like Hantilis and Hattusilis is
Indo-European in origin. I know that Hanti- meant "frontmost"
or "highest" and "Hattus" was the capital, Hattusa(s).
I also have read that Suppiluliuma(s) meant "Holy well".