EAST GERMANIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Germanic mean? 

• EAST GERMANIC (noun)
  The noun EAST GERMANIC has 1 sense:

1. an extinct branch of the Germanic languages

  Familiarity information: EAST GERMANIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST GERMANIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extinct branch of the Germanic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

East Germanic; East Germanic language

Hypernyms ("East Germanic" is a kind of...):

Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "East Germanic"):

Gothic (extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas)