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West Germanic

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Definitions

  1. The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages,…

    The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.

  2. The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West…

    The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic).

    • German and English are sister languages, descended from West Germanic.
    • The next logical step is to note that the Scandinavian languages, descended from a North Germanic parent, are more distant historically from English than are Dutch and German, which, like English, are descended from West Germanic.

  3. Of or relating to these languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for West Germanic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA