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/oʊld prˈəʃən/ Listen

Old Prussian

noun

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

... Champ-de-Mars: many a Patriot shiftier, truer none. Lafayette himself is looking altogether dubious; in place of beating the Austrians, is about writing to denounce the Jacobins. Rochambeau, all disconsolate, quits the service: there remains only Luckner, the babbling old Prussian Grenadier. ...

— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... take the form of any animal, who steals away children at the breast, and substitutes changelings for them; the Bohemian Polednice, or "noon-lady," who roams around only at noon, and substitutes changelings for real children; the Lithuanian and Old Prussian Laume, a child-stealer, whose breast is the thunderbolt, and whose girdle is the rainbow; the Servian Wjeschtitza, or witches, who take on the form of an insect, and eat up children at night; the Russian "midnight ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... from an old Prussian family ennobled in 1840. He was born about 1855 and was a student with the Kaiser at the University of Bonn. He studied law at Gottingen, Strassburg and Berlin, and for several years followed the law and was appointed a judge ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

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