Old Prussian

American  

noun

1. a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. OPruss

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Old Prussian British  

noun

1. the former language of the non-German Prussians, belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family: extinct by 1700

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Etymology

Origin of Old Prussian

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The Old Prussian, which is nearly related to Lithuanian, became extinct in the seventeenth century, and the entire literature which it has left behind consists in an old catechism.

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