the Germanic parent language (GPL), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic (PPG), is the reconstructed language of the...

Migration Period in the fourth century AD. The alternative term "Germanic parent language" may be used to include a larger scope of linguistic developments...

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe...

The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European...

Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...

which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic;...

to project some terms back to the Proto-Germanic period despite their attestation in only one Germanic language; for instance, *saidaz ('magic') is only...

boxes, or other symbols instead of letters. Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex...

Norse: Burgundar; Old English: Burgendas; Greek: Βούργουνδοι) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near...

Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research...

intelligible dialects derived from a common parent language but there are no written records to verify this fact. The Germanic tribes moved and interacted over the...

Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's...

significant numbers in Germanic paganism. Both numbers (and multiples thereof) appear throughout surviving attestations of ancient Germanic folklore, in both...

alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the...

whether certain groups are Germanic in the broader linguistic sense or whether they consisted of speakers of a Germanic language. The names listed below...

the use of ancient and early medieval Germanic languages and are thus equated at least approximately with Germanic-speaking peoples, although different...

Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians'...

In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and...

Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range...

Germanic kingship is a thesis regarding the role of kings among the pre-Christianized Germanic tribes of the Migration period (c. 300–700 AD) and Early...

lived in an area associated with early Germanic languages, but not in an area associated with Celtic languages. The ethnonym is attested in Latin as Teutonēs...

Pre-Germanic may refer to the predecessor of Common Germanic, see Germanic parent language a language spoken before the arrival of Germanic speakers during...

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The...

In Germanic mythology, an idis (Old Saxon, plural idisi) is a divine female being. Idis is cognate to Old High German itis and Old English ides, meaning...

Romano-Germanic describes the conflation of Roman culture with that of various Germanic peoples in areas successively ruled by the Roman Empire and Germanic...

conjugation of Germanic strong verbs such as sing/sang/sung. While Germanic umlaut has had important consequences for all modern Germanic languages, its effects...

Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic...

in Germanic paganism and Germanic mythology, both as individuals (sacred trees) and in groups (sacred groves). The central role of trees in Germanic religion...

Romans and various Germanic peoples. The nature of these wars varied through time between Roman conquest, Germanic uprisings, later Germanic invasions of the...

spoke a Germanic language according to modern definitions, the theory proposes that their language indirectly influenced later Germanic languages in the...