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Occitan
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proper noun
  1. An endangered Romance language spoken in some parts of France (particularly the south), Spain and Italy.
Oceanic
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adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to Oceania; Oceanian.
OCS
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initialism
  1. (linguistics) Old Church Slavonic
  2. outer continental shelf
  3. (military) officer candidate school
  4. Office of Contract Settlement
OE
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abbreviation
  1. Old English
OF
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abbreviation
  1. Old French
OIr
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abbreviation (o-i-r)
  1. Old Irish
OIt
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abbreviation
  1. Old Italian
Old Church Slavonic
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proper noun
  1. The first literary and liturgical Slavic language.
Old English
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proper noun
  1. The ancestor language of modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has 5 cases of nouns and adjectives. In addition to singular and plural grammatical numbers, there was a dual number for two people.
Old Frisian
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proper noun
  1. Language akin to English spoken on the Wikipedia:North Sea, North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany before 1500.
Old High German
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noun (abbreviation: OHG)
  1. The earliest recorded form of the German language, spoken from the middle of the 9th century to the end of the 11th century.
Old Irish
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proper noun
  1. The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries A.D.
Old Norse
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proper noun
  1. The language of Scandinavia before AD 1400, the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic.
Old Prussian
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proper noun
  1. the Baltic language spoken by the people of Prussia prior to their subjugation by the Teutonic Knights, German Order.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the Old Prussian language or people.
Old Saxon
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proper noun
  1. A west Germanic language historically tied to Anglo-Saxon and Old Low Franconian.
ON
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abbreviation
  1. Ontario (Canadian province)
OPruss
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abbreviation
  1. Old Prussian
Oriya
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proper noun
  1. the official language of the state of Orissa, India.
Oromo
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proper noun (wikipedia, Oromo language)
  1. a pastoral people of Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
  2. a member of this people.
  3. the language of this people.
OS
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initialism
  1. Ordnance Survey
  2. operating system
  3. oculus sinister () - left eye
  4. outsize
Oscan
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noun
  1. A member of an ancient group of Italic-speaking peoples of Campania (the Osci)
proper noun
  1. The language of the Oscan people.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the Oscan language or Oscan people, or their writing system.
Ossetian
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noun
  1. Ossetic, an Iranian language.
  2. One who is from Ossetia.
adjective
  1. Of, or pertaining to Ossetia.
Ossetic
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proper noun
  1. An Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region in the Caucasus.
Ottawa
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proper noun
  1. The capital of Canada, located in the province of Ontario.
  2. A river flowing SE between Ontario and Quebec into the St. Lawrence River.
  3. A city in Illinois.
  4. A town in Ohio.
  5. An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe; also spelt Ottowa.
  6. The Ottawa dialect of Ojibwe; also spelt Odawa or odaawaa, Odaawaa.
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