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Khaldian|ˈkældɪən|
[f. Khaldis or Khaldi the name of the supreme god in Urartu + -an, -ian.]
a. Also Khaldæi, Khaldean. Orig. the divine offspring of Khaldi; more usually, a native or inhabitant of the ancient Armenian kingdom of Urartu.
b. Also Khaldic. The language spoken by this people. Also as adj.
1882A. H. Sayce in Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. XIV. 412 Khaldis..was also the father of other gods who were called ‘the Khaldians’ after him. 1898― in J. Hastings Dict. Bible I. 140/1 The supreme god of Armenia was Khaldis..from whom the inhabitants of the country took the name of ‘people of Khaldis’. From this was derived the name of Khaldæi or Khaldeans. 1901Westm. Gaz. 29 July 5/2 The Khaldians..are to be identified with the Chaldaioi of the Greek writers, who figure prominently in Xenophon. 1908A. H. Sayce in Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 793/1 The present article deals with Proto-Armenian religion as revealed in the Vannic or ‘Khaldian’ cuneiform inscriptions. 1925― in Cambr. Anc. Hist. III. viii. 170 If another title is wanted in place of Vannic, Alarodian would be preferable to Khaldian. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. xii. 381 Khaldic (also called Urartaean or Vannic), the language of a kingdom which flourished between 900 and 600 B.C...is known from nearly two hundred inscriptions in Akkadian cuneiform. 1952O. R. Gurney Hittites vi. 124 A direct descendant of Hurrian is the language of the kingdom of Urartu, sometimes called Vannic or Khaldian. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 243/1 The people were called Khaldis, they worshipped a sun-god and an air-god. 1966Ibid. XIV. 179/1 Urartu was an ancient kingdom in the highlands of Armenia... The people called themselves ‘children of Khaldi’ (their national god) and so have sometimes been called Khaldians by modern historians. |