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Suio-Gothic

Suio-Gothic proper noun: the language of the Goths of Götaland (Southern Sweden); Old Swedish.

Proper noun

Suio-Gothic

  1. (archaic) The language of the Goths of Götaland (Southern Sweden); Old Swedish.
    • We also meet with the term Suio-Gothic, which is applied to mean the language of the Goths of Gothland in Sweden, and which may be looked upon as Old Swedish.[1868, Walter William Skeat, A Mœso-Gothic Glossary: With an Introduction, an Outline of Mœso-Gothic Grammar, and a List of Anglo-Saxon and Old and Modern English Words Etymologically Connected with...

Origin of Suio-Gothic

Late 18th century, from Latin Suiōnēs (a Scandinavian tribe) + Gothic.

Questions about Suio-Gothic

What does Suio-Gothic mean?
Suio-Gothic means the language of the Goths of Götaland (Southern Sweden); Old Swedish.
What part of speech is Suio-Gothic?
Suio-Gothic is a proper noun.

Words near Suio-Gothic in the dictionary

  1. suingly
  2. suings
  3. Suining
  4. suint
  5. suints
  6. Suio-Gothic
  7. Suiping
  8. suipoxvirus
  9. suipoxviruses
  10. Suir
  11. Suire

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