Old English
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (linguistics, history) The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
- Synonyms: Anglo-Saxon
- cot en
- (nonstandard, colloquial, proscribed) Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English.
- 2008, Stephen J. Harris, Bryon Lee Grigsby, Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, page 177:
- Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.
- 2008, Stephen J. Harris, Bryon Lee Grigsby, Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, page 177:
- (typography, historical) The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.
- French: anglo-saxon; vieil anglais
- German: Angelsächsisch, angelsächsische Sprache; Altenglisch, altenglische Sprache
- Italian: anglosassone; inglese antico
- Portuguese: anglo-saxão, anglo-saxónico (Portugal), anglo-saxônico (Brazil); inglês antigo
- Russian: древнеангли́йский язы́к
- Spanish: anglosajón, idioma anglosajón; inglés antiguo
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