OLD NORSE

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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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