Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The subdivision of the Germanic languages that includes Gothic.
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- adjective Of or relating to the East Germanic languages, a
subdivision of theGermanic languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an extinct branch of the Germanic languages
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Examples
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Proto-Germanic was undergoing several major changes, including mora-loss, at the period when first contact was established with Rome, and was also simultaneously splitting into Northwest and East Germanic.
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The tripartite division was East Germanic (Gothic and other extinct languages), West Germanic (German, Dutch, English), and North Germanic (Danish and the other Scandinavian languages.)
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If German were officially included, then we would also need to include Yiddish, Luxembourgish which is *not* included despite the claim above, the North Germanic varieties and the East Germanic varieties.
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The Iron Age occurred around 500 BC in Scandanavia and East Germanic races there migrated south to replace the Celtic people in continental Europe.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The match was not particularly good and I turned to the East Germanic languages, known through Gothic, that were spoken in eastern Europe between about 1
languagehat.com 2008
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