Teutonic language

His reputation rests on his philological learning, especially in early Teutonic languages.

James Marchand studies Gothic, the oldest teutonic language with any written remains.

The portion of this translaton which is preserved is the oldest known literary document in any Teutonic language.

What a shock to find themselves subject to military discipline; learning Teutonic languages; exercising, jumping, and boxing until they re as sore as snails.

The Teutonic language is the root of much German-Yiddish usage, and it profoundly affected the Saxons.

English is a Teutonic language, like German, Dutch, and Swedish, with a large infusion-perhaps a majority-of French words.

1731: Homandby The word Womanby is early Teutonic language in origins, and translates as "the abode of the foreigners".

He then took up the post of lecturer in Teutonic languages at the new University College, Liverpool, the precursor of the University of Liverpool, established three years earlier.

There is a slight similarity to ancient Greek and Latin, but scholars think the basic runic alphabet originated in the first century with Germanic cultures who linked it with the Teutonic language of the time.

His chief work, while professor at Helmsted, is his Historia studii etymologici linguae germanicae haetenus impensi Hanover, 1711), a literary and historical study of all works bearing on the investigation of the Teutonic languages.

According to English philologist Walter William Skeat (1835-1912), the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages, in Dutch oxhooft (modern okshoofd), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhufvod, etc.

He brought out, in the Annals of Oriental Literature (London, 1820), an essay entitled, "Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages", in which he extended to all parts of the grammar what he had done in his first book for the verb alone.

laþþe, a form possibly due to the Welsh liath; the word appears in many Teutonic languages, e.g. Dutch lat, German Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Italian latta, French latte), denoting a thin, flat strip made of wood or possibly another material.