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Old English

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1 Proper Noun

2 Synonyms

3 Related Terms

4 See Also

Proper Noun

Old English

The ancestor language of modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has 5 cases of nouns and adjectives.

Synonyms

Anglo-Saxon

Related Terms

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