What is another word for Old English?

Pronunciation: [ˈə͡ʊld ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ] (IPA)

Old English is a term primarily used to refer to the earliest form of the English language that was spoken in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe this language and its various stages. For instance, it can be referred to as Anglo-Saxon, as this was the name of the people who spoke it. Other synonyms include Anglo-Frisian, since it evolved from the Frisian and Saxon dialects, and Early English, as it was the precursor to modern English. Finally, it can be called West Saxon, since this was the dialect that eventually became dominant in medieval England.

Synonyms for Old english:

What are the hypernyms for Old english?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    anglo-saxon language, old english poetry, anglo-saxon literature, old english literature, Anglo-Frisian language, Early English language, Old English prose.

Famous quotes with Old english

  • When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
    Alma Gluck
  • We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
    Julie Taymor
  • Behind her chair, from a wall covered in a very expensive velvet-flock paper, a portrait of her grandfather looked down. He had been an Episcopalian bishop, but the picture showed him in the costume of a New England gentleman keeping up the Old English custom of riding to hounds: red coat, brown boots, distinguished with a white dog-collar and black silk front. Hugh referred to him as being dressed to kill. The salad was replaced—though Hugh had sampled only a mouthful of his—by a dish of cold fish with mayonnaise. He didn’t even touch this course. He was suddenly afraid of it because it had come from the sea.
    John Brunner

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