minoan

IPA: mʌnˈoʊʌn

Root Word: Minoan

Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.).
Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece.
Of or relating to the ancient language of the Minoans which died out by the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.E.

Examples of "minoan" in Sentences

Publisher: minoan publishing corp The Purple Claw, 1953, No. 3 May
The Black Sea was a Greek lake for many 1000s of years, why couldn't a few minoan tablets turn up?
Since linguistics is my hobby,I have also pondered about the pelicularity of the minoan linear sylllabary.
I say, let's go back to the minoan period for some wonderful women's fashion ideas . . . see the statue above right.
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Using Wikipedia-like syntax, I just enter "{{l dbs itemID}}" into any word entry where dbs is the short code for the database min = minoan, ecyp = eteocypriot, etr = etruscan and itemID is the automatically generated number referring to a particular word entry.
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