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EAST GERMANIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extinct branch of the Germanic languages
Synonyms:
East Germanic; East Germanic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
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