Germanic

See also: germanic and germànic

English

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

Germanic

(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.
Synonyms: Ur-Germanic, Proto-Germanic, Common Germanic
- 2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED‎^[1], 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.
(linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

early language — see also Proto-Germanic

Afrikaans: Germaans (af)
Arabic: الجِرْمَانِيَّة f (al-jirmāniyya)
Hijazi Arabic: جرماني m (jirmāni)
Catalan: germànic (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 日耳曼語 / 日耳曼语 (jat⁶ ji⁵ maan⁶ jyu⁵)

Mandarin: 日耳曼語 / 日耳曼语 (zh) (rì'ěrmànyǔ)
Danish: germanskt n
Dutch: Germaans (nl) n
Faroese: germanskt n
Finnish: germaaninen kantakieli
French: germanique (fr) m
German: Germanisch (de) n
Hungarian: germán (hu)
Irish: Gearmáinic f
Italian: germanico (it) m
Japanese: ゲルマン語 (ゲルマンご, gerumango)
Khmer: ហ្គឺរម៉ាននីឝ (gɨɨmaanniih)
Latin: Germanici
Macedonian: ге́рмански m (gérmanski)
Persian: ژرمنی (fa) (žermani)
Polish: germański (pl) m
Portuguese: germânico (pt) m
Romanian: germanică f
Russian: герма́нский язы́к m (germánskij jazýk)
Spanish: germánico (es) m
Swahili: Kijerumaniki class 7
Swedish: germanska (sv)
Welsh: Germanaidd
Yiddish: גערמאַניש (germanish)

group of Indo-European languages

Belarusian: герма́нскія мо́вы (hjermánskija móvy)
Catalan: germànic (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 日耳曼語族 / 日耳曼语族 (jat⁶ ji⁵ maan⁶ jyu⁵ zuk⁶)

Mandarin: 日耳曼語族 / 日耳曼语族 (rì'ěrmàn yǔzú)
Danish: germansk (da)
Dutch: Germaans (nl) n
Finnish: germaaninen (fi)
French: germanique (fr) m
Galician: xermánico (gl) m
Georgian: გერმანიკული ენები (germaniḳuli enebi)
German: Germanisch (de) n
Hungarian: germán (hu)
Icelandic: germönsk
Irish: Gearmáinic f
Italian: germanico (it) m
Japanese: ゲルマン諸語 (ゲルマンしょご, geruman shogo), ゲルマン語派 (ゲルマンごは, geruman goha)
Korean: 게르만 어파 (gereuman eopa)
Macedonian: германски (germanski)
Norwegian: germansk (no)
Polish: germańskie nvir
Portuguese: germânico (pt) m
Romanian: germanic (ro) m or n
Russian: герма́нские языки́ m pl (germánskije jazykí)
Scots: Germanic
Spanish: germánico (es) m
Swahili: Kijerumaniki class 7
Swedish: germanska (sv)

Germanic (comparative more Germanic, superlative most Germanic)

Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
a Germanic tribe
(linguistics) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.
Synonyms: Teutonic; see also Thesaurus:Germanic language

a Germanic language
- 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; […] .
(sometimes proscribed) Having German characteristics.
Synonyms: German, Teutonic

He arrived with Germanic punctuality.

relating to the Germanic peoples

relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic

having German characteristics

Germanic (plural Germanics)