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Germanic
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8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Germanic
  2. Germanic consonant shift
  3. East Germanic
  4. Indo-Germanic
  5. North Germanic
  6. Proto-Germanic
  7. West Germanic
  8. Pan-German

1Ger·man·ic

adjective \(ˌ)jər-ˈma-nik\

Definition of GERMANIC

1
: german
2
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the Germanic-speaking peoples
3
: of, relating to, or constituting Germanic
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Examples of GERMANIC

  1. Germanic languages, such as German, English, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.

First Known Use of GERMANIC

1633

Rhymes with GERMANIC

Balkanic, Brahmanic, Britannic, galvanic, Hispanic, Koranic, mechanic, melanic, organic, Romanic, satanic, shamanic, sultanic, tympanic, volcanic

2Germanic

noun

Definition of GERMANIC

: a branch of the Indo-European language family containing English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic — see indo-european languages table

First Known Use of GERMANIC

1892

Rhymes with GERMANIC

Hispanic, Koranic, mechanic, melanic, organic, Romanic, volcanic

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