GERMANIC LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Germanic language mean? 

• GERMANIC LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun GERMANIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic

  Familiarity information: GERMANIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERMANIC LANGUAGE (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Germanic; Germanic language

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)