noun
An ancient Indo-European language of the Anatolian subgroup, closely allied to Hittite and Luwian, and known from cuneiform inscriptions of the 2nd millennium b.c. found in the Hittite archives.
adjective
Of, relating to, written in, or attested in Palaic.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Journal of the American Oriental Society. From Pala, the name of a district of Asia Minor + -ic.
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