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West Germanic en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Of or relating to these languages.

Relateds

East Germanic · North Germanic

Translations (7)

vi ngữ chi German Tây (Translations) · nl West-Germaans (Translations) · sco Wast Germanic (Translations) · de westgermanisch (Translations) · cs západogermánské jazyky (Translations) · ru западногерма́нский (Translations) · uk західнонімецький (Translations)

West Germanic en · PROPN

Meanings

1. The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
2. The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic).
   • The degree of actual Dutch influence on the Norwich dialect is somewhat difficult to determine for the rather obvious reason that Dutch and English are closely related languages, both descended from West Germanic, and resemblances between Dutch and forms of English are therefore most usually due not to the influence of Dutch on English, or vice versa, but to their common origin. 2010, Peter Trudgill, Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics: Stories of Colonisation and Contact, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
   • The next logical step is to note that the Scandinavian languages, descended from a North Germanic parent, are more distant historically from English than are Dutch and German, which, like English, are descended from West Germanic. p. 1993, a. 2002, in Donald McLean Lamberton (editor), The Economics of Language, Edward Elgar Publishing (2002), page 93
   • German and English are sister languages, descended from West Germanic. 1940, Charles Hart Handschin, Modern-Language Teaching, World Book Company, page 165:

Synonyms

Proto-West Germanic

Translations (1)

de Westgermanisch (Translations)