EAST GERMANIC LANGUAGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An extinct branch of the Germanic languages

Synonyms:

East Germanic; East Germanic language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("East Germanic language" is a kind of...):

Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "East Germanic language"):

Gothic (extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas)

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