Germanic

See also: germanic and germànic

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/

Proper noun

Germanic

  1. (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
  2. (linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

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See also

  • Category:Terms derived from Germanic languages

Further reading

Adjective

Germanic (comparative more Germanic, superlative most Germanic)

  1. Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
    a Germanic tribe
  2. (linguistics) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
    Synonyms: Teutonic; see also Thesaurus:Germanic language
    a Germanic language
    • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
      Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […] .
  3. (sometimes proscribed) Having German characteristics.
    Synonyms: German, Teutonic
    He arrived with Germanic punctuality.

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Noun

Germanic (plural Germanics)

  1. (history) A native of Germania.
    Synonym: Germanian

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