Germanic language (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
Synonyms:
Germanic; Germanic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Germanic language" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Germanic language"):
West Germanic; West Germanic language (a branch of the Germanic languages)
Proto-Norse (the Germanic language of Scandinavia up until about 700)
Old Norse (the extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350)
Nordic; Norse; North Germanic; North Germanic language; Scandinavian; Scandinavian language (the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland)
East Germanic; East Germanic language (an extinct branch of the Germanic languages)