1. Old Prussian - Noun
2. Old Prussian - Adjective
3. Old Prussian - Proper noun
a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European
Source: WordNetResults bad...whole tone and temper very different to a year ago, rearmed and rearming with the old Prussian spirit very much in evidence. Russia is now the bogey. Anthony Eden
Baltic Old Prussian probably ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the 18th century due to many of its remaining speakers dying in the famines and bubonic plague epidemics which harrowed the East Prussian countryside and towns from 1709 until 1711. Source: Internet
R. Schmalstieg, Studies in Old Prussian, University Park and London, 1976. Source: Internet
Georg Gerullis undertook the first basic study of these names in Die altpreußischen Ortsnamen ("The Old Prussian Place-names"), written and published with the help of Walter de Gruyter, in 1922. Source: Internet
However, an appendix to the law-code also made it clear that the Old Prussian peasant converts were discriminated against by the Teutonic Knights, and were allowed remain "semi-pagan, uncouth and lawless". Source: Internet
Old Prussian began to be written down in the Latin alphabet in about the 13th century. Source: Internet