1. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic; [syn: Germanic, Germanic language]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Germanic language
n 1: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members
that are spoken currently fall into two major groups:
Scandinavian and West Germanic [syn: Germanic, Germanic
language]