North Germanic

noun

1. the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.

North Germanic

noun

1. a subbranch of the Germanic languages that consists of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and their associated dialects See also Old Norse

Word History and Origins

Origin of North Germanic¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

North Germanic or Scandinavian, West Germanic or Low and High German, and East Germanic, of which the only important representative is Gothic.

From Project Gutenberg

As a result, things have never looked better for the small cadre of Icelandic translators who render the North Germanic tongue of 320,000 island-dwellers into something the rest of the world can understand.

From Wall Street Journal