Example sentences for: germanic

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

  • To those who bemoan the loss of the chastity of the French language, all I can say is that the lady never was a virgin: French is essentially mutated Latin corrupted by Arabic, Gaulish, and Germanic, to name a few of the seducers.

  • She doesn't mention that this name is a perfectly normal Germanic name which consists of rik- mighty and -ulf, wolf which is itself a rather colourful name for a scoundrel.

  • Despite his protest to the contrary, Wilkinson has included a number of what can only be termed literary metaphors in sections under Myth that include Primeval, Jewish, Greek, Germanic, and Celtic, but no Roman.

  • Silver is from OE siolfor/seolfor , Proto-Germanic * silubhra , and may not be an Indo-European word at all, but one borrowed from the Semitic language Akkadian (the language of Babylon): sarpu refined metal.

  • It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.


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