Germanic

Meaning

Name

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

Adj

1. Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
2. Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
3. (proscribed, sometimes) Having German characteristics.

Noun

A native of Germania.

Synonyms

Teutonic

Germanic language

German

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Transrhenane

Proto-Germanic

german

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German-language

Translations

germanique

germanico

germanisch

Germaans

germánico

germain

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germànic

germânico

germano

deutsch

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alemão

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tedesco

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alemany

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.