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Old Prussian   /oʊld prˈəʃən/   Listen
Old Prussian

noun
1.
A dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European.





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"Old Prussian" Quotes from Famous Books



... whole culinary cargo home with me. While upon the subject of old art—of which there are scarcely a hundred yards in the city of Nuremberg that do not display some memorial, however perishing—I must be allowed to make especial mention of the treasures of BARON DERSCHAU—a respectable old Prussian nobleman, who has recently removed into a capacious residence, of which the chambers in front contain divers old pictures; and one chamber in particular, backward, is filled with curiosities of a singular variety of description.[172] I had indeed heard frequent mention ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin


Words linked to "Old Prussian" :   Baltic, Baltic language


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