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Germans
Germans great ethnic complex of ancient Europe, a basic stock in the composition of the modern peoples of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, N Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, N and central France, Lowland Scotland, and England. From archaeology it is clear... Read more
German language
German language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). It is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland. Altogether nearly 100 million people speak German ... Read more
German measles
German measles (rubella) Viral disease usually contracted in childhood. Symptoms include a sore throat, slight fever and pinkish rash. Women developing rubella during the first three months of pregnancy risk damage to the fetus. Immunization is recommended for girls who have not had the disease.... Read more
Germanic languages
Germanic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by about 470 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. All the modern Germanic languages are closely related; moreover, they become progressively closer grammatically and... Read more
German silver
German silver name for various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, sometimes also containing lead and tin. They were originally named for their silver-white color, but use of the term silver is now prohibited for alloys not containing that metal. German silver varies in composition, the percentag... Read more
German literature
German literature works in the German language by German, Austrian, Austro-Hungarian, and Swiss authors, as well as by writers of German in other countries. Old and Middle High German: From Early to Medieval Literature Heroic legends, among them the Lay of Hildebrand, date from the turn... Read more
German shepherd
German shepherd breed of large, muscular working dog perfected in Germany at the turn of the 20th cent. It stands about 25 in. (64 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 60 to 85 lb (27.2-38.5 kg). Its double coat is composed of dense, woolly underhair and a medium-length, harsh, straight or sl... Read more
German Catholics
German Catholics religious groups founded in 1844 by dissidents from the Roman Catholic Church. They were led by two excommunicated priests, Johann Czerski of Schneidemühl, Posen, and Johann Ronge of Breslau. The church, organized by a council in Leipzig in 1845 under the name of Deutsche-kath... Read more
German Confederation
German Confederation 1815-66, union of German states provided for at the Congress of Vienna to replace the old Holy Roman Empire, which had been destroyed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It comprised 39 states in all, 35 monarchies and 4 free cities. Its purpose was to guarante... Read more
German East Africa
German East Africa former German colony, c.370,000 sq mi (958,300 sq km), E Africa. Dar es Salaam was the capital. German influence emerged in the area in 1884 when Carl Peters, the German explorer, obtained treaties over parts of the territory. The German government declared a protectorate over th... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Germanic"

Germanic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Germanic languages subfamily of the Indo-European...the Western Hemisphere. All the modern Germanic languages are closely related; moreover...is traditionally referred to as Proto-Germanic and which is believed to have broken from...
Germanic religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Germanic religion pre-Christian religious practices...pre-Christian Germans, there was no Germanic religion common to all the Scandinavian...whether a ritual or legend peculiar to one Germanic tribe was common to all Germanic tribes...
Germanic laws
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Germanic laws customary law codes of the Germans...agreed that the laws were substantially Germanic, although the form in which they were...in Latin, although interspersed with Germanic legal terms. For the most part, the...
GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language GERMANIC LANGUAGES. A group of related languages including ENGLISH...point in history and in what ways did a common Proto-Germanic break away from Indo-European? Do the various Germanic languages form a DIALECT continuum? How can they best...
Germans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and the remnants in later ages of early Germanic institutions. Apart from describing their...Gothic people, often called the East Germanic, whose language (Gothic) was the first written Germanic language. The Goths apparently moved...
GRIMM'S LAW
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language GRIMM'S LAW. The first Germanic sound shift, a statement of the relationship between certain consonants in GERMANIC LANGUAGES and their originals in Indo...x275;/, as they developed in Germanic. Because English has words borrowed...
Gothic language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Gothic language dead language belonging to the now extinct East Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Gothic has special value for the linguist because it was recorded...
German language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition German language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). It is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland...
Anglo-Saxon literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...sources of which are pre-Christian Germanic myth, history, and custom; and the...poetry is the earliest extant in all of Germanic literature. It is thus the nearest we can come to the oral pagan literature of Germanic culture, and is also of inestimable...
English language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition English language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about...

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Germanic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...characteristics of or attributed to Germans or Germany: she had an almost Germanic regard for order. • n. the Germanic languages collectively. See also East Germanic , North Germanic , West Germanic . ∎  the unrecorded...
shrew
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...The name is recorded in Old English (in form scrēawa , scrǣwa , of Germanic origin); related words in Germanic languages have senses such as ‘dwarf’, ‘devil’, or...
Anglo-Saxon
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xB7;on • adj. relating to or denoting the Germanic inhabitants of England from their arrival in the 5th century...of good old Anglo-Saxon expletives. • n. 1. a Germanic inhabitant of England between the 5th century and the Norman...
ordeal
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...ordeal an ancient test of guilt or innocence, especially among Germanic peoples, by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival...guilt found in other societies. Recorded in Old English and of Germanic origin, the word is related to German urteilen ‘...
Gothic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...unvoicedth]ik / • adj. 1. of or relating to the Goths or their extinct East Germanic language, which provides the earliest manuscript evidence of any Germanic language (4th–6th centuries ad ). 2. of or in the style of architecture...
roof
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xB7;less adj. ORIGIN: Old English hrōf , of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse hróf ‘...sense ‘covering of a house’; other Germanic languages use forms related to thatch .
weak
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...syllable) unstressed. 4. Gram. denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by addition...reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse veikr , from a Germanic base meaning ‘yield, give way.’
Peace
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...late fifth century led to the foundation of numerous bellicose Germanic kingdoms, which struggled to create a new basis for social...gradually much of the culture of antiquity, especially as the Germanic peoples converted to Christianity. The Western Church in the...
England
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...country of the Angles (see ANGLE ), (later) of the Germanic inhabitants of Great Britain; hence OFris. Angelond , OS...So English OE. englisċ pert. to the group of Germanic peoples known coll. as Angelcynn , lit. ‘race...
Wessex, kingdom of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...obscure. Archaeological evidence shows that the communities of Germanic settlers established in the middle Thames region in the late...and was described by Bede as a bretwalda (overlord of the Germanic settlers in Britain). At the battle of Dyrham near Bath in...

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Early Germanic Literature and Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Early Germanic Literature and Culture. Ed. by BRIAN...earliest literature in German and in related Germanic languages. The decision to make Old...with an interdisciplinary approach to 'Germanic' culture in all its manifestations...
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...cloth. General textbooks introducing the Germanic languages are scarce. This work claims...undergraduate seminar "Introduction to the Germanic Languages," Robinson takes a philological...result the reader is introduced to the Germanic languages within a cultural context that...
Language and History in the Early Germanic World
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Howard. Language and History in the Early Germanic World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998...us about the "encounter of the early Germanic tribes with Rome and Christianity...book is divided into three parts: "The Germanic World" (9-140), "Contact with...
The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early...When is a hero not a hero? When he is a Germanic one, it seems! This book is based on...chapters deal with a number of more or less Germanic characters, arranged thematically around...
Early Germanic Literature and Culture
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Brian, and Malcolm Read, eds. Early Germanic Literature and Culture. Camden House...existed in rather defined genres across the Germanic area and includes the great literature...that "the volume is entitled 'early Germanic culture'" in that it "tries to consider...
Germanic invaders did not rule Britain by apartheid
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/23/2008; 580 words ; ...DNA has led geneticists to suggest that Germanic invaders may not have ruled Britain by...earlier, the discovery of a strong Germanic signal in the Y-chromosome of British...theory was that from AD 430 to 730, the Germanic conquerors of Britain formed an elite...
Developing register differentiation: the Latinate-Germanic divide in English *.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...language use than words of its native Germanic stock, and hence as diagnostic of linguistic...class vocabulary items for Latinate/Germanic origin in 192 texts produced by 16 native...Results indicate that the Latinate-Germanic divide is a valid diagnostic of register...
The Phonological Evolution of the Germanic Languages.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Russian colleges and universities studied Germanic historical phonology, and Kuzmenko became...in postwar Russia. In the fifties, Germanic scholars could cite only Zinder's early...unreadable text omitted] (A Comparative Germanic Accentology) was published. Inspired...
The evolution of Germanic phonological systems; proto-Germanic, gothic, West Germanic, and Scandinavian.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 463 words ; 9780773450202 The evolution of Germanic phonological systems; proto-Germanic, gothic, West Germanic, and Scandinavian. Plotkin, Vulf. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 230 pages $109.95 Hardcover PD99 A specialist in the phonological and grammatical...
The Germanic strong verbs; foundations and development of a new system.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 489 words ; 9783110199574 The Germanic strong verbs; foundations and development of a new...his work on morphological and etymological study if Germanic strong verbs by investigating Germanic, the common ancestor to all Germanic languages, centering...