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| 1. | of or pertaining to the Teutons or their languages. |
| 2. | German. |
| 3. | of, pertaining to, or noting the Germanic branch of languages. |
| 4. | a branch of the Indo-European family of languages including German, Dutch, English, the Scandinavian languages, Afrikaans, Flemish, Frisian, and the extinct Gothic language. |
| 5. | Proto-Germanic (def. 1). |
| 6. | an ancient Indo-European language, the immediate linguistic ancestor of the Germanic languages. Abbreviation: Gmc |