Minaicn.adj.
/mᵻˈneɪɪk/, U.S. /məˈneɪɪk/ A. n.
The Semitic language of the Minaeans. (Minaic is now the preferred term.)
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Minaean1951
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 654/1 The other [dialect], which expresses the causative by sa.., is the Minaic. To this latter branch belong the numerous South Arabic inscriptions recently found in the north of the Ḥijáz, near Ḥejr where the Minæans must have had a commercial settlement.
1984 A. F. L. Beeston Sabaic Gram. 1 Among them [sc. the languages of pre-Islamic inscriptions in south-western Arabia], we can distinguish four principal languages, which have come to be designated by scholars as Minaic (or Minaean), Sabaic, Qatabanic..and Hadramitic.
1984 A. F. L. Beeston Sabaic Gram. 59 Minaic..is geographically attested only in Khirbat Macin, [etc.].
= Minaean adj. Obsolete.
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Minaean1902
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 654/1 The singular manner in which districts containing Sabæan inscriptions and those containing Minaic alternate with one another.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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