Germanic

Germanic
Germanic or Proto-Germanic [jər man′ik]
adj.
[L Germanicus, of the Germans: orig. applied to a particular tribe, prob. Celtic]
1. Now Rare German
2. designating or of a group of N European peoples including the Germans, Scandinavians, Dutch, English, etc., or the peoples from whom they are descended
3. designating or of the language group Germanic
n.
1. Obs. PROTO-GERMANIC
2. a principal branch of the Indo-European family of languages, comprising the languages descended from Proto-Germanic: it is divided into three groups East Germanic (including Gothic), North Germanic (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Old Norse, etc.), and West Germanic (English, Dutch, German, Yiddish, Frisian, etc.)

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