germanic
IPA: dʒɝmˈænɪk
Root Word: Germanic
noun
- (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.
- (linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.
- (history) A native of Germania.
adjective
- Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
- (linguistics) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
- Having German characteristics.
- Of or containing germanium.
- Containing germanium with a valence of 4.
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