germanic

name

1. 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.

   “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.”

2. The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

adj

1. Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).

   “a Germanic tribe”

2. Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic.

   “a Germanic language”

   “Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].”

3. (proscribed, sometimes)Having German characteristics.

   “He arrived with Germanic punctuality.”

4. (not-comparable)Of or containing germanium.
5. (not-comparable)Containing germanium with a valence of 4.

noun

1. A native of Germania.