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Vinony

Germanic

  1. From the Central European region around modern-day Germany
  2. Relating to the Germanic languages of Central European origin
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/ / /d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English germanium Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English germanic From germanium + -ic.

  1. Of or containing germanium.
  2. Containing germanium with a valence of 4.

name

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.

  1. 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.

    “Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.”

  2. The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

noun

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.

  1. A native of Germania.