OLD PRUSSIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old Prussian mean? 

• OLD PRUSSIAN (noun)
  The noun OLD PRUSSIAN has 1 sense:

1. a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD PRUSSIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Old Prussian" is a kind of...):

Baltic; Baltic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European)