Germanic Definition

jər-mănĭk
adjective
German.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a group of N European peoples including the Germans, Scandinavians, Dutch, English, etc., or the peoples from whom they are descended.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the Teutons.
American Heritage
Designating or of the language group Germanic.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a member of a Germanic-speaking people.
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noun

Proto-Germanic.

Webster's New World
A principal branch of the Indo-European family of languages, comprising the languages descended from Proto-Germanic: it is divided into three groups.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Germanic language
pronoun

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

Wiktionary

(linguistics) The early, undocumented language from which other Germanic languages such as German, English, Dutch and Scandinavian languages developed.

Wiktionary

Origin of Germanic

  • From Latin Germānicus.

    From Wiktionary

Germanic Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

GGEGER

Words Ending With

CICNIC

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Words Starting With G and Ending With C

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With G8 Letter Words Ending With C