Proto-norse

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the Germanic language of Scandinavia up until about 700 wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.

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ancient nordicold scandinavianprimitive norseproto-nordicproto-norse languageproto-north germanic

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"In the beginning, there was only one language in the Nordic countries, Proto-Norse."

Etymology

From proto- + Norse.

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