Germanic
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin germānicus.
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Proper nounEdit
Germanic
- (linguistics) The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.
- Synonyms: Ur-Germanic, Proto-Germanic, Common Germanic
- (linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.
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early language — See also translations at Proto-Germanic
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group of Indo-European languages
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AdjectiveEdit
Germanic (comparative more Germanic, superlative most Germanic)
- Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
- a Germanic tribe
- (linguistics) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
- a Germanic language
- Synonyms: Teutonic; see also Thesaurus:Germanic language
- Having German characteristics.
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relating to the Germanic peoples
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relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic
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having German characteristics
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NounEdit
Germanic (plural Germanics)