单词 | old norse |
释义 | Old Norsen. The North Germanic language spoken in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland, and other parts of northern Europe settled by Norsemen, from which the modern Scandinavian languages are derived. Also: spec. = Old Icelandic n.Old Norse comprised two main dialect groups: (Old) West Norse (the ancestor of Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese) and (Old) East Norse (the ancestor of Danish and Swedish). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian runic1665 Scandinavian1766 Old Norse1833 ON1864 Norse1927 Nordic1940 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian > Norwegian > Old Norwegian Old Norse1833 1833 Philol. Museum 2 379 The tongues of the Old, the Middle and New High Dutch, the Old Saxon, the Middle and New Low-Dutch,..lastly the languages of Scandinavia, the Old Norse, and its daughters Dansk and Swedish. 1844 Proc. Philol. Soc. 1 236 Even in the very earliest stages of the Old Norse. 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech ii. 99 The Swedish and Danish..have become more analytical than Old Norse. 1900 Mod. Lang. Notes 15 222/1 The Old Norse exercises at the professor's house, when it was indeed ‘a real pleasure to be initiated into the mysteries of the crabbed Old Icelandic tongue’. 1957 M. Beloff Europe & Europeans iv. 86 The Nordic languages, especially Old Norse, borrowed important words from Anglo-Saxon. 1991 Lang. in Society 20 302 His early writings were examinations of Old Norse manuscripts and included translations into modern (New) Norwegian. 2002 Hist. Scotl. Mar.–Apr. 44/3 Twenty such names contain Old Norse kirkja (church), ranging from several Kirbister's in Shetland..to Kirkibost on Lewis, North Uist and Skye. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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