Etymograph

English

Ingvaeonic

Ingvaeonic comes from Latin Ingaevōnēs.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEIngaevōnēs
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2018Ingvaeonic

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEIngaevōnēs
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2018Ingvaeonic

Earliest quotation: 2018, Robert D. Fulk, A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages: “Particularly important for the question of West Germanic unity…”

The story

The first element is of Germanic origin and could mean "descendant of Yngvi."

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- ‘to die, perish’

innocent, innocence, nuisance, obnoxious, nectar, innocuous, noxious, necropolis, internecine, 18 more

through Latin nominative

aggregate, delegate, ancestor, dictate

Today it means

adj Of or relating to the North Sea Germanic languages.

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

Etymograph / Latin Ingaevōnēs / Ingvaeonic

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