Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that comprises North Germanic, West Germanic, and the extinct East Germanic.
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Of or relating to a member of a Germanic-speaking people.
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of Germany or its people, language, or culture.
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The Germanic branch of Indo-European.
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(now rare) German.
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Designating or of a group of N European peoples including the Germans, Scandinavians, Dutch, English, etc., or the peoples from whom they are descended.
(linguistics) The early, undocumented language from which other Germanic languages such as German, English, Dutch and Scandinavian languages developed.
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(linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from Germanic.
In these circumstances the intrusion of Germanic elements into ecclesiastical law is easy to understand.
Attempts have been made to show that they were of German origin, but although they were doubtless subject to Germanic influences, they spoke a Celtic language.
From 1860 to 1870 he was professor of history at the faculty of letters at Strassburg, where he had a brilliant career as a teacher, but never yielded to the influence exercised by the German universities in the field of classical and Germanic antiquities.
He was not himself a Goth, belonging to a confederation of Germanic tribes, embracing Alans and Scyrians, which had come under the influence of the Ostrogoths settled on the lower Danube; and his own sympathies are those of a member of this confederation.
Originally Celtic, the population was modified during the Roman period by the arrival of a Germanic people, the Triboci.