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Suio-Gothic en · PROPN

Etymology

Late 18th century, from Latin Suiōnēs (a Scandinavian tribe) + Gothic.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) The language of the Goths of Götaland (Southern Sweden); Old Swedish.
    • We also meet with the term Suio-Gothic, which is applied to mean the language of the Goths of Gothland in Sweden, and which may be looked upon as Old Swedish. [1868, Walter William Skeat, A Mœso-Gothic Glossary: With an Introduction, an Outline of Mœso-Gothic Grammar, and a List of Anglo-Saxon and Old and Modern English Words Etymologically Connected with Mœso-Gothic,, page VI: