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Nuragic en · ADJ

Etymology

From nuraghe + -ic.

Meanings

  1. 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.
    • 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. 2017, Isabelle Vella Gregory, “35. Mediterranean—Sardinia”, in Timothy Insoll, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, Oxford University Press, page 808:
    • 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. 2007, Stephen L. Dyson; Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds, Sailors, and Conquerors, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, page 89:
    • 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.

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Translations (4)

fr nuragique (of or relating to an ancient Sardinian civilisation) · de nuragisch (of or relating to an ancient Sardinian civilisation) · pl nuragijski (of or relating to an ancient Sardinian civilisation) · it nuragico (of or relating to an ancient Sardinian civilisation)

Nuragic en · PROPN

Etymology

From nuraghe + -ic.

Meanings

  1. The hypothesized language of the Nuragic civilization.
    • Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia. 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 21:

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