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OLD PRUSSIAN
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I. (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)