Example sentences for: germanic

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

  • 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.

  • The Germanic traditions and language of the north became distinct from the Gallo-Roman traditions longer preserved in the Medi­ter­ra­nean basin.

  • 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.

  • Quang Phuc Dong's English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject looks at the oft-questioned basis of fuck you!, whilst Munç Wang's Copulative Sentences in English: A Germanic Language Spoken in Northern Delaware studies the grammaticality (in the author's idiolect) of such sentences as Micky fucked Michelle's cadaver in the ass (grammatical), Bret fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its throat (of questionable grammaticality), and Fred fucked the log through a hole that squirrels had made (ungrammatical).

  • Whereas both the name of the element in English and its universal symbol come from Cyprus , the name came via Germanic and the symbol via Latin.


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