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WEST GERMANIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Germanic languages
Synonyms:
West Germanic; West Germanic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("West Germanic" 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 "West Germanic"):
English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)
German; German language; High German (the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic)
Low German; Plattdeutsch (a German dialect spoken in northern Germany)
Dutch (the West Germanic language of the Netherlands)
Frisian (a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English)
