Germanic

adjective

• 1relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and the Scandinavian languages.
• relating to or denoting the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe speaking Germanic languages.

• 2having characteristics of or attributed to Germans or Germany:she had an almost Germanic regard for order

noun

• the Germanic languages collectively. See also East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic.
• the unrecorded ancient language from which the Germanic languages developed, thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium bc. Also called Proto-Germanic.