Originally Posted by
Osweo
Padre was clearly talking about languages, not peoples. And peoples are not static sealed entities, but merge and split and change names and languages.
The Hittites are named from their capital Hattusa, where the Hatti language was formerly spoken. IE was brought there by people calling themselves after their previous capital Kanesa or whatever it was. In such a way, we could call the Hittites 'conquered', albeit with the blood of the 'conquerors' in their veins too. Just like the Armenians.