˜yÐÄvlog

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East Germanic

noun

  1. a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. : EGmc


East Germanic

noun

  1. a subbranch of the Germanic languages: now extinct. The only member of which records survive is Gothic
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of East Germanic1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

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She is wearing the traditional headdress of the Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe.

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North Germanic or Scandinavian, West Germanic or Low and High German, and East Germanic, of which the only important representative is Gothic.

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These, with High German, constitute the 'West Germanic' branch, as Gothic and the Scandinavian tongues constitute the 'East Germanic' branch, of the Teutonic family.

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Hauptmann did not belong, however, to the transcendental school that creates purely inferential languages—East Germanic and West, General Teutonic, Original Slavic, Indo-European and the like.

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She is wearing the traditional headdress of the Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe.

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