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Old English
['əuld'ɪŋglɪʃ]
ling.
Seann Bheurla
(
Yerkwantai
)
English thesaurus
Old English
['əuld'ɪŋglɪʃ]
abbr.
OE
lit.
Also known as Anglo-Saxon, Old English is the ancestor of Middle English and modern English. It is a Germanic language that was introduced to the British Isles by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in a series of invasions in the fifth century, it is thus regarded as the language that existed between 449AD and 1066
when the Norman Conquest occurred
.
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