Normanno-

[nor.mɑː.noʊ̯][nor.mæ.noʊ̯]

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Normandy, the Normans, or the Norman language.

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  1. Normandy, the Normans, or the Norman language.

    This most eminent representative of the Normanno-Sicilian school of falconry […]

    1990, Christopher Harper-Bill, Ruth Harvey, The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood III, page 82
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    I ſhall only beg leave to obſerve by the way, that before the diſtinction of Dano-Saxon, and Normanno-Saxon, there were doubtleſs ſeveral Dialects, or Proprieties of Speech introduced by thoſe ſeveral Nations, of the Saxons, Angli, and Jutæ, or Geatæ, who took Poſſeſſion of the Iſland, and of thoſe other Colonies that were called. out of Germany; […]

    1715, Elizabeth Elstob, “Of the Dialects”, in The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, First Given in English: […], London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer: And Sold by J. Bowyer […], and C. King […], page 65

    The Normanno-Russian Great Princes of Kijev, as well as the Volga Bulgarians, were the vassals of the Xazars.

    1995, Karl Heinrich Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples, page 30
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