germaaninen kantakieli — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Germanic adj Relating to the Germanic peoples, such as Germans, Scandinavians, or Anglo-Saxons, or to their family of languages.
Senses
germaaninen kantakieli is used for these senses in English:
- Germanic (linguistics) 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.
Germanic — full definition
- adj Relating to the Germanic peoples, such as Germans, Scandinavians, or Anglo-Saxons, or to their family of languages.
- name The family of related languages descended from a common ancestral language, including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.