West Germanic

短语

西日尔曼语支

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to these languages.

name
  1. 1.

    The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.

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  2. 2.

    The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic).

    The next logical step is to note that the Scandinavian languages, descended from a North Germanic parent, are more distant historically from English than are Dutch and German, which, like English, are descended from West Germanic.