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.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

In Slavonic, too, we look in vain, till we come to that almost forgotten side-branch called the Lettic, comprising the spoken Lituanian and Lettish, and the now extinct Old Prussian.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander