Old English

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Proper noun 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Related terms 1.1.3 Translations 1.1.4 See also 1.1.5 External links

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Singular Old English

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Old English

1. The ancestor language of modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has 5 cases of nouns and adjectives. In addition to singular and plural grammatical numbers, there was a dual number for two people. After ca. 884, many Old Norse words made their way into Old English, as Norse settlers in the Danelaw interacted with native Anglo-Saxons.

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• Anglo-Saxon

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• English
• Middle English
• Modern English

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• Category:Old English language for words in Old English
• Germanic

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• ISO 639-3 code ang (SIL)