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Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#GERMANICCategory:English learned borrowings from Latin#GERMANICCategory:English terms derived from Latin#GERMANIC germānicus, equivalent to German + -icCategory:English terms suffixed with -ic#GERMANIC.
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GermanicCategory:English lemmas#GERMANICCategory:English proper nouns#GERMANICCategory:English uncountable nouns#GERMANICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GERMANICCategory:Pages with entries#GERMANICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GERMANIC
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#GERMANIC) 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
- 2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 January 2022:
- Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.Category:English terms with quotations#GERMANIC
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#GERMANIC) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.
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- ISO 639-5 code gem
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Germanic (comparative more Germanic, superlative most Germanic)Category:English lemmas#GERMANICCategory:English adjectives#GERMANICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GERMANICCategory:Pages with entries#GERMANICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GERMANIC
- Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#GERMANIC) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
- Synonyms: Teutonic; see also Thesaurus:Germanic language
- a Germanic languageCategory:English terms with usage examples#GERMANIC
- 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; […] .Category:English terms with quotations#GERMANIC
- (sometimes proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#GERMANIC) Having German characteristics.
- Synonyms: German, Teutonic
- He arrived with Germanic punctuality.Category:English terms with usage examples#GERMANIC
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Germanic (plural Germanics)Category:English lemmas#GERMANICCategory:English nouns#GERMANICCategory:English countable nouns#GERMANICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GERMANICCategory:Pages with entries#GERMANICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GERMANIC
- (historyCategory:en:History#GERMANIC) A native of Germania.
- Synonym: Germanian
