Example sentences for: germanic

How can you use “germanic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Did the Italians take their word balcone from some Germanic tongue and pass it on into English, Russian, and other languages; or did Italian take the word from the Persian balahana , as Russian did balagan , at least according to the Tolkovyi Slovar'?

  • Hungarians have always been fiercely proud of their language, a non Indo-European island in a sea of Slavic, Germanic, and Romance tongues.

  • Convinced of the importance of consulting Hindu legal authorities in the original [ Encyc. Brit . 1963, 13, 140a], Jones, well versed in Sanskrit, became aware of the correspondences among Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Germanic forms, which led him to the conclusion that Sanskrit was another, older form of a parent language from which all had sprung.

  • In Britain, electronic music draws on Germanic disco, hip-hop, and dub , the stripped-down, heavily echoed instrumental variant of reggae.

  • Jesse Ventura is the product of Minnesota political culture, with its mix of Yankee and Germanic reformism and its long history of influential regional third-party movements such as the Nonpartisan League and the Farmer-Labor party.


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