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Minoan

[ US /məˈnoʊən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete
    the Minoan palace at Knossos
NOUN
  1. a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC

How To Use Minoan In A Sentence

  • The range of elemental compositions displayed by individual glass shards combined with the consistency of many trace element ratios are characteristics of the Minoan glass.
  • As we can see, a rule like this in Minoan is minor and self-explanatory if there is only /n/ allowed in syllable codae, even more so if there is no phonemic contrast between a vowel-plus-nasal sequence and a nasalized vowel, whereas the same rule in Mycenaean produces the orthographic train wreck with which specialists must struggle. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Zominthos is a charming place where all the features of Minoan archaeology are amalgamated, which is why we need to be careful as we excavate, not to miss any piece that could be added to the puzzle of the archaeology of the mountains. Picture 40 « Daily Life « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project
  • Many ancient Greek myths take their location from Minoan Crete more than ten centuries before Plato. Daedalus, the ancient scientist, was supposedly the architect of the palace at Knossos.
  • If there are no voicing contrasts in Minoan stops, then it seems to me that the likeliest value for d is something more like an unaspirated affricate: /tʃ/. A new value for Minoan 'd'
  • In HT 16.1-2, the phrase ka-ku-pa • di-na-u, especially if approached from the assumption that Minoan is related to Etruscan, seems to show a noun followed by a participial adjective in -(a)u (nb. the Etruscan participle ending -u as in tur-u 'given') in much the same way as adjectives are placed after commodity terms in Mycenaean. Archive 2009-12-01
  • As the Greek language does have a perfect 'Z' sound (and always had), the development -i-za -issa is only likely if the Minoan sign was an affricate (*ts), that the Greek rendered to a stressed 'S'. A new value for Minoan 'd'
  • This is, at least, one way of explaining an otherwise very peculiar aspect of Minoan religion - the daemons.
  • Some themes are adopted from the Minoan repertoire - ladies in gaily coloured flounced skirts, acrobatic bull leapers - though they tend to be more stiffly drawn and lack the grace and spontaneity so characteristic of Minoan art.
  • Hartely et al. found that 1,5-and 1,8 - disubstituted aminoanthraquinones are phototoxic to human leukemic cells.
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