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say it: jur-MAN-ik
germanic is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to the language of Germans". It is pronounced /dʒɚˈmænɪk/ — jur-MAN-ik. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to the language of Germans
“the Germanic sound shifts”
of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages
“Teutonic peoples such as Germans and Scandinavians and British”
“Germanic mythology”
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for germanic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.