Germanic

name
/d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/UK/d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/US

Etymology

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

  1. learned borrowing from germānicus

Definitions

  1. The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed,…

    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.

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

  3. Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).

    • a Germanic tribe
  4. + 5 more definitions
    1. Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.

      • a Germanic language
      • Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
    2. Having German characteristics.

      • He arrived with Germanic punctuality.
    3. A native of Germania.

    4. Of or containing germanium.

    5. Containing germanium with a valence of 4.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Germanic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01germanic02scandinavians03scandinavian04scandinavia05faroe06faroese07swedish

A definitional loop anchored at germanic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at germanic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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