germansk — meaning in English

English meaning

• German noun A native or citizen of Germany.
• Germanic adj Relating to the Germanic peoples, such as Germans, Scandinavians, or Anglo-Saxons, or to their family of languages.

Senses

germansk is used for these senses in English:

• German Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent; to their cultures.
• Germanic (sometimes proscribed) Having German characteristics.
• Germanic (linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

German — full definition

1. noun A native or citizen of Germany.
2. noun The West Germanic language spoken mainly in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
3. adj Relating to Germany, its people, culture, or language.
4. adj Sharing both parents, or being a first cousin through a full sibling of one's parent (a formal, somewhat old-fashioned usage, as in "cousin-german").

Germanic — full definition

1. adj Relating to the Germanic peoples, such as Germans, Scandinavians, or Anglo-Saxons, or to their family of languages.
2. name The family of related languages descended from a common ancestral language, including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.

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