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Meaning of "East Germanic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EAST GERMANIC

East Germanic play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EAST GERMANIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
East Germanic is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EAST GERMANIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

East Germanic languages

The East Germanic languages are a group of extinct Germanic languages of the Indo-European language family spoken by East Germanic peoples. The only East Germanic languages of which texts are known are Gothic and Crimean Gothic; other languages that are assumed to be East Germanic include Vandalic and Burgundian. Crimean Gothic is believed to have survived until the 18th century.

Definition of East Germanic in the English dictionary

The definition of East Germanic in the dictionary is a subbranch of the Germanic languages: now extinct. The only member of which records survive is Gothic.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EAST GERMANIC

East Cape
East China Sea
east coast fever
East Dunbartonshire
East End
East Ender
East Europe
East European
East Flanders
East German
East Germany
East India Company
East Indian
East Indies
East Kilbride
East London
East Lothian
East Malaysia
East Pakistan
East Pakistani

WORDS THAT END LIKE EAST GERMANIC

aldermanic
Brahmanic
councilmanic
firemanic
germanic
Hispanic
hypermanic
hypomanic
Indo-Germanic
manic
mechanic
melomanic
North Germanic
organic
Proto-Germanic
Rhaeto-Romanic
Romanic
shamanic
talismanic
West Germanic

Synonyms and antonyms of East Germanic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «East Germanic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EAST GERMANIC

Find out the translation of East Germanic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of East Germanic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «East Germanic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

东日耳曼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Este germánica
570 millions of speakers

English

East Germanic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्व युरोपीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشرق الجرمانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Восток германский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Leste germânica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্ব জার্মানিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Est germanique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jermanik Timur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ostgermanischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

東ゲルマン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동 게르만
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jermanik Timur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đông Đức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிழக்கு ஜேர்மனிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्व जर्मनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Doğu Alman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orientale germanica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wschód germańskie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Схід німецький
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

East germanic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ανατολή γερμανικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Oos-Germaanse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

East germanska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

østgermanske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of East Germanic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EAST GERMANIC»

The term «East Germanic» is used very little and occupies the 170.185 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of East Germanic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «East Germanic».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EAST GERMANIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «East Germanic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «East Germanic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about East Germanic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EAST GERMANIC»

Discover the use of East Germanic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to East Germanic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Germanic Languages
This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, ...
Wayne Harbert, 2006
2
The History of English
It evolved into several different daughter languages, subdivided into three groups : East Germanic, North Germanic, and West Germanic. As you can guess by their names, the subdivisions are based in part on their geographical locations.
Scott Shay, 2008
3
Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and Diachronic
North and East Germanic improved upon this syllable contact, too, according to Suzuki, by nonassimilatory hardening of the onset glide into a stop, simultaneously affecting as well the preceding glide with which, as the other half of a geminate, ...
Rosina Lippi-Green, Joe Salmons, 1996
4
Runes and Germanic Linguistics
Elmer H. Antonsen. tion "Northwest Germanic" to differentiate it from East Germanic (i.e., Gothic) and to locate the general area in which it was spoken. 8. Northwest Germanic: Language and inscriptions The term "Northwest Germanic" is not ...
Elmer H. Antonsen, 2002
5
Of Kindred Germanic Origins
Johan Viljoen Burgundian was the East Germanic language of the Germanic speaking people who ultimately settled in southeastern Gaul (Southeastern France, Western Switzerland, and Northwestern Italy) in the fifth century CE. It is extinct.
Jodie Scales, 2001
6
The Origins and Development of the English Language
This ending disappeared completely in West Germanic (Old English wulf) but changed to ~r in North Germanic (Old Icelandic ulfr) and to ~s in East Germanic ( Gothic wolfs). 2. The endings for the second and third persons singular in the ...
John Algeo, Carmen Butcher, 2013
7
Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages
Traditionally, the Germanic languages are divided into three groups: East, North, and West Germanic. I will not be concerned with the East Germanic languages at all, partially due to the insurmountable difficulties in locating native speakers: ...
Department of German Linguistics Stuttgart University Sten Vikner Assistant Professor, 1995
8
English Words: History and Structure
A third group, East Germanic, has died out completely. East Germanic is historically important because much of our earliest information about the Germanic languages comes from an East Germanic language called Gothic, the language of the ...
Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell, 2009
9
The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic
or East Germanic and Proto-Germanic loanwords would often be hard to tell. The layer of Proto-Slavic loanwords into Proto-Germanic supposedly came about in a shorter period of time and is put before the disintegration of Proto-Germanic, ...
Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff, 2013
10
The Germanic Languages
East Germanic The first of the Germanic tribes to migrate from the Danish Isles and southern Sweden were the Goths, who presumably departed from the Common Germanic area around 100 BC. After crossing the Baltic they were joined by ...
Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EAST GERMANIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term East Germanic is used in the context of the following news items.
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GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Impermanence
The Vandals, an East Germanic tribe who tangled repeatedly with the Roman Empire, weren't nearly as bad as the verb “vandalize” implies. «Lost Coast Outpost, May 15»
2
Sanskrit = Spoken Persian + Written Tamil: Part II
Kotha, an East Germanic tribal civilization were the third in Mesopotamia. They were neither friendly3 with Chivan nor with Akathiyan. They did ... «TruthDive, Apr 15»
3
What If The Ancient Wonders of the World Still Stood Today? Artist …
It is likely it was sacked and burned by Goths (the East Germanic tribe, not the depressed teenagers) around 268 AD. The ruins of the temple ... «moviepilot.com, Mar 15»
4
Abdullah Qandeel's art: A thing of beauty, a joy forever
The irony of being charged with vandalism is not lost on Qandeel. The very word comes from the name of an East Germanic tribe, the Vandals, ... «Arab News, Jan 15»
5
'Book of Life' Director Jorge Gutierrez: “Write Your Own Story”
Unless you mean East Germanic themed animation, in which case you might be right. James VanDam. Great job on your second movie reel fx ... «Cartoon Brew, Oct 14»
6
Anarchy by any other name
The Vandals were in fact an East Germanic tribe that established a civilization in Spain and North Africa during the fifth century. Why has the ... «Daily Sabah, Oct 14»
7
Grappling With Yiddish Words That Punch Above Their Weight
Germanic's offspring can be divided into East Germanic, North Germanic and West Germanic. East Germanic gave birth to languages like ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Apr 13»
8
Bolaño's Last, Great Secret
What Bolaño's last masterpiece does proceed to describe, with East Germanic voyeurism, is the web of relationships on display. Why? Because ... «The Millions, May 12»
9
Libya: Assessing Berber Prospects
After all, North Africa has seen a degree of mixing of ethnic groups, including the East Germanic tribe known as the Vandals, who established a ... «Middle East Forum, Apr 12»
10
Gateway to an exotic world
... Herculean one) from Spain, has resulted in its occupation by Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals (a destructive East Germanic tribe), Byzantines, ... «Irish Independent, Apr 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. East Germanic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/east-germanic>. May 2024 ».
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