nuragic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.
name
The hypothesized language of the Nuragic civilization.
Example Sentences
- "North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary. The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag."
- "2013, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, 10: The western Mediterranean before The Etruscans, Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan World, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 209, Two points are by now acknowledged: the first, and already discussed above, is the Cypriot impact factor on Nuragic Sardinia, more than on any other western land, specifically connected to the metallurgy."
- "While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period.[…]The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period."
- "Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia."
Etymology
From nuraghe + -ic.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ic