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OLD NORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old Norse mean? 

OLD NORSE (noun)
  The noun OLD NORSE has 1 sense:

1. the extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350play

  Familiarity information: OLD NORSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OLD NORSE (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)


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