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Old English
- (linguistics, historical) The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 AD to 1100.
- (nonstandard, colloquial, proscribed) Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English.
- 2008, Stephen J. Harris, Bryon Lee Grigsby, Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, page 177:
- Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.
- (typography, historical) The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.
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ancestor language of modern English
- Albanian: Anglishte e vjetër
- Amharic: ጥንታዊ እንግሊዝኛ (ṭəntawi ʾnglizña)
- Arabic: إِنْجْلِيزِيَّة عَتِيقَة f (ʾinglīziyya ʿatīqa)
- Armenian: հին անգլերեն (hin angleren), անգլոսաքսոներեն (anglosakʿsoneren)
- Asturian: inglés antiguu m, anglosaxó m
- Basque: antzinako ingelesa
- Belarusian: стараанглiйская f (staraanhlíjskaja), стараанглiйская мова f (staraanhlíjskaja móva)
- Bulgarian: староанглийски език m (staroanglijski ezik)
- Catalan: anglès antic (ca) m
- Valencian: anglés antic (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 古英語 (zh), 古英语 (zh) (gǔyīngyǔ)
- Czech: stará angličtina (cs) f
- Danish: angelsaksisk, oldengelsk
- Dutch: Oudengels (nl)
- Esperanto: Anglosaksa lingvo
- Estonian: vanainglise keel
- Faroese: fornenskt (fo) n
- Finnish: muinaisenglanti (fi)
- French: anglo-saxon (fr) m, vieil anglais (fr) m
- Galician: inglés antigo (gl) m
- Georgian: ძველი ინგლისური (ʒveli inglisuri), ძველი ინგლისური ენა (ʒveli inglisuri ena), ანგლოსაქსური ენა (anglosaksuri ena)
- German: Angelsächsisch (de) n, angelsächsische Sprache f, Altenglisch (de) n, altenglische Sprache f
- Greek: αρχαία αγγλική γλώσσα (archaía anglikí glóssa)
- Hebrew: אנגלית עתיקה
- Hungarian: óangol nyelv
- Icelandic: fornenska (is)
- Indonesian: bahasa Inggris Kuna
- Irish: Sean-Bhéarla m, Angla-Shacsainis f
- Italian: anglosassone (it) m, inglese antico m
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- Japanese: 古英語 (ja) (こえいご, Koeigo)
- Khmer: ភាសាអង់គ្លេសបុរាណ (pʰiesaa ɑngkleih boraan), អង់គ្លេសបុរាណ (ɑngkleih boraan)
- Korean: 고영어 (古英語, go-yeong-eo), 고대영어 (go-dae-yeong-eo, 古代英語)
- Latin: lingua anglosaxonica f
- Limburgish: Aad-Ingelsj (li) n
- Lithuanian: senoji anglų kalba
- Macedonian: староанглиски јазик m (staroángliski jázik), староанглиски m (staroángliski)
- Malay: bahasa Inggeris Kuno, Inggeris Kuno
- Maltese: anglo-sassonu m, Ingliż arkajk m
- Marathi: जुनी इंग्रजी f (zunī iṃgrazī), जुनी इंग्लिश f (zunī iṃgliśa)
- Nahuatl: huēhcāuh Inglatlahtōlli
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gammelengelsk (no) m, gammalengelsk m
- Nynorsk: gamalengelsk m, gammalengelsk m
- Occitan: anglosaxon (oc) m
- Persian: انگلیسی قدیم (engelisi qadim)
- Polish: staroangielski (pl) m
- Portuguese: inglês antigo (pt) m, anglo-saxão (pt) m, anglo-saxónico (Portugal), anglo-saxônico (Brazil)
- Romanian: engleză veche, anglosaxonă f
- Russian: древнеангли́йский язы́к m (drevneanglíjskij jazýk), древнеангли́йский (ru) m (drevneanglíjskij)
- Scots: Auld Inglis
- Slovene: stara angleščina f
- Spanish: inglés antiguo (es) m, idioma anglosajón m
- Swahili: Kiingereza cha Kale
- Swedish: fornengelska (sv) c
- Tagalog: lumang Ingles
- Thai: ภาษาอังกฤษโบราณ (paasăa anggrit bohraan)
- Turkish: Eski İngilizce (tr)
- Ukrainian: староанглійська f (staroanhlíjs’ka), староанглійська мова f (staroanhlíjs’ka móva)
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