Definition of East Germanic

1. Noun. An extinct branch of the Germanic languages.

Exact synonyms: East Germanic Language
Generic synonyms: Germanic, Germanic Language
Specialized synonyms: Gothic

Definition of East Germanic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the East Germanic languages, a subdivision of the Germanic languages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of East Germanic

East Asians
East Berlin
East Berliner
East Berliners
East Bird's Head
East Chadic
East China Sea
East Coast
East Coast fever
East End
East Flanders
East Flemish
East Frisia
East Frisian
East German
East Germanic (current term)
East Germanic language
East Germans
East Germany
East India
East India Company
East India kino
East India rosewood
East Indian
East Indian Catholic
East Indian Catholics
East Indian fig tree
East Indian rosebay
East Indian rosewood
East Indians

Literary usage of East Germanic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1893)
"The Arianism of the rest of the East-Germanic Tribes and Kingdoms and the Ostro-Gothic Kingdom in Italy. ..."

2. The Phonological Investigation of Old English: Illustrated in a Series of by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1889)
"Linguistic science at present recognizes two main divisions of Germanic, known as West Germanic and East Germanic; the former includes the dialects ..."

3. History of the English Language by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1907)
"Proof of the closeness of the relationship existing between the members of the East-Germanic division has not been made out so clearly as that which exists ..."

4. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"Besides the West Germanic dialects, the Teutonic branch includes East Germanic (Gothic) and Scandinavian, to both of which English is allied, ..."

5. Outlines of the History of the English Language by Thomas Northcote Toller (1900)
"The two are grouped together under the name East-Germanic, the other members of the stock forming the West-Germanic division. The Germanic group, then, ..."

6. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"Insignificant remnants of a few other dialects seem rather closely related to Gothic and form with it East Germanic. b. North Germanic or Scandinavian: ..."

7. Elements of the History of the English Language by Uno Lorenz Lindelöf (1911)
"For a long time it was the universal custom to unite Gothic and the Scandinavian languages in an East Germanic group, and even today some schol- are make ..."

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