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Old Irish

Old Irish proper noun: the Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries C.E., the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive texts (written in the Latin alphabet) are extant.

Proper noun

Old Irish

  1. The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries C.E., the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive texts (written in the Latin alphabet) are extant.
    Synonyms:
    Irishlandic

Synonyms of Old Irish

Questions about Old Irish

What does Old Irish mean?
Old Irish means the Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries C.E., the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive texts (written in the Latin alphabet) are extant.
What part of speech is Old Irish?
Old Irish is a proper noun.

Words near Old Irish in the dictionary

  1. Old Indo-Aryan
  2. Old Ingarsby
  3. Old Ionian
  4. Old Ionic
  5. Old Iranian
  6. Old Irish
  7. Old Italian
  8. Old Jamestown
  9. Old Japanese
  10. Old Javanese
  11. Old Jerusalem Island

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