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Old Icelandic

Old Icelandic proper noun: the Old Norse language as spoken and written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, quite similar to Old Norwegian, but differing most markedly in orthography and, to a lesser extent, in phonology.

Proper noun

Old Icelandic

  1. The Old Norse language as spoken and written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, quite similar to Old Norwegian, but differing most markedly in orthography and, to a lesser extent, in phonology.

Forms of Old Icelandic

alternative formOIc.

Questions about Old Icelandic

What does Old Icelandic mean?
Old Icelandic means the Old Norse language as spoken and written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, quite similar to Old Norwegian, but differing most markedly in orthography and, to a lesser extent, in phonology.
What part of speech is Old Icelandic?
Old Icelandic is a proper noun.

Words near Old Icelandic in the dictionary

  1. Old Home Week
  2. old horse
  3. Old Hundred
  4. Old Hundredth
  5. Old Hungarian
  6. Old Icelandic
  7. old in the tooth
  8. Old Indic
  9. Old Indo-Aryan
  10. Old Ingarsby
  11. Old Ionian

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