Etymograph

English

Germanic

Germanic comes from Latin germānicus ‘Germanic, Teutonic’, and goes back to Germānus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEGermānus‘relating to the native peoples or tribes of ancient Germania’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgermānicus‘Germanic, Teutonic’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1945Germanic

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEGermānus‘relating to the native peoples or tribes of ancient Germania’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgermānicus‘Germanic, Teutonic’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1945Germanic

Earliest quotation: 1945, Elizabeth Gidley Withycombe, Introduction: “Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all…”

Formed from German + -ic

Latin Germānus ‘the peoples of Germānia’

English German

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- ‘short’

girl, card, chart, rocket, cartoon, chorus, chronic, cartel, cartridge, carton, carte, synchronous, urchin, crony, cartography, synchronize, cron, cartouche, 34 more

Today it means

name 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.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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