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West Germanic

West Germanic proper noun: the branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.

Proper noun

West Germanic

  1. The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
  2. The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic).
    • German and English are sister languages, descended from West Germanic.1940, Charles Hart Handschin, Modern-Language Teaching, World Book Company, page 165
    • The next logical step is to note that the Scandinavian languages, descended from a North Germanic parent, are more distant historically from English than are Dutch and German, which, like English, are descended from West Germanic.p. 1993, a. 2002, in Donald McLean Lamberton (editor), The Economics of Language, Edward Elgar Publishing (2002), page 93

Adjective

West Germanic

  1. Of or relating to these languages.

West Germanic meaning in Vietnamese

West Germanic in Vietnamese

Translations
ngữ chi German Tây

Synonyms of West Germanic

Questions about West Germanic

What does West Germanic mean?
West Germanic means the branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
What is West Germanic in Vietnamese?
West Germanic in Vietnamese is ngữ chi German Tây. See West Germanic meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is West Germanic?
West Germanic can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near West Germanic in the dictionary

  1. West Frisian
  2. West Frisian Islands
  3. west gallery music
  4. West Garo Hills
  5. West German
  6. West Germanic
  7. West Germans
  8. West Germany
  9. West Gippsland
  10. West Glamorgan
  11. West Godavari

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