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OLD NORSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Old Norse" is a kind of...):
Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old Norse"):
Old Icelandic (the extinct dialect of Old Norse that was spoken in Iceland up until about 1600)