"Old French" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Old French}} Old French
  1. The French language as spoken or written from the 9th to the early 14th century. Wikipedia link: Old French Categories (topical): Languages Related terms: Middle French, Wiktionary’s coverage of Old French terms Translations (French language from 9th to the early 14th century): ou frans (Afrikaans), francés antiguu [masculine] (Asturian), antzinako frantses (Basque), francès antic [masculine] (Catalan), francès medieval (Catalan), francés antic [Valencian, masculine] (Catalan), 古法語 (Chinese Mandarin), 古法语 (Gǔfǎyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), oldfransk [neuter] (Danish), Oudfrans [neuter] (Dutch), malnovfranca lingvo (Esperanto), muinaisranska (Finnish), ancien français [masculine] (French), vieux français [masculine] (French), francés antigo [masculine] (Galician), Altfranzösisch [neuter] (German), αρχαία γαλλική (archaía gallikí) (Greek), ófrancia (Hungarian), fornfranska (Icelandic), francese antico [masculine] (Italian), antico francese [masculine] (Italian), 古フランス語 (kofuransugo) (Japanese), Ooltfranzöösch [neuter] (Low German), gammelfransk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), francés ancian [masculine] (Occitan), Frencisc sprǣc (Old English), franceis [masculine] (Old French), françois [masculine] (Old French), romanz [masculine] (Old French), فرانسوی قدیم (farânsavi-ye qadim) (Persian), starofrancuski [masculine] (Polish), francês antigo [masculine] (Portuguese), старофранцу́зский (starofrancúzskij) [masculine] (Russian), starofrancuski (Serbo-Croatian), francés antiguo [masculine] (Spanish), francés medieval (Spanish), fornfranska (Swedish), vî lingaedje d' oyi (Walloon), Hen Ffrangeg (Welsh), Aldfrânsk [neuter] (West Frisian)

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      "word": "Aldfrânsk"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.