Definition of North Germanic

1. Noun. The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland.


Definition of North Germanic

1. Proper noun. (linguistics) A branch of the Germanic language family which comprises Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of North Germanic

North Cascades National Park
North Caucasus
North Channel
North Conway
North Dakota
North Dakotan
North Dakotans
North Dravidian
North East England
North East Land
North Equatorial Current
North Finnish
North Frigid Zone
North Frisian
North Frisian Islands
North Germanic (current term)
North Germanic language
North Holland
North Holland Blue
North India
North Indian
North Indians
North Island
North Island brown kiwi
North Island brown kiwis
North Islander
North Korea
North Korean
North Korean monetary unit
North Korean won

Literary usage of North Germanic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"... means Germanic at the stage in which East, West, and North Germanic are mere possibilities. § 22. The Home of the Indo-Germans. ..."

2. Gnomic Poetry in Anglo-Saxon by Blanche Colton Williams (1914)
"The introduction, though incidentally drawing illustrations from North Germanic literature, deals mainly with gnomic lines in Anglo-Saxon epic, lyric, ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"Of Primitive North Germanic (Primitive Norse, Primitive Scandinavian) a small amount ... Primitive West Germanic and Primitive North Germanic both closely ..."

4. A Summary of Modern History by Jules Michelet (1875)
"THE EAST AND THE NORTH. GERMANIC AND SCANDINAVIAN STATES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. IF we regard similarity of habits and language, ..."

5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"In 1866. as a result of war with Austria (the Seven Weeks* War), Prussia acquired the hegemony of the North Germanic Confederation from Austria. ..."

6. Adventure Guide Scandinavia by Henrik Berezin (2006)
"The Scandinavian languages are all part of the North- Germanic family, ... It is related to Finnish, which has no connections to the North-Germanic ..."

7. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1860)
"The florid poetic literature of the three last-named races shows that the animated feeling for nature evinced by the North Germanic races is not alone to he ..."

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