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On 06 Jul 2007, at 18:27, Peter Collier wrote:
does anyone have any thoughts on what term might be used instead for the (remaining) languages, which we would call "Germanic" *here* (Low German, Dutch, Frisian, English and the Nordic languages)? I'm leaning towards Saxonic, but I also think Nordic (in an expanded sense, with some other more specific term like Scandic for Norwegian et al) would be quite possible - as these languages would be "Northern" from a Romance point of view.Any ideas?
Picking up on your Scandic idea, what about "Gothonic"? (Reflecting a view that "all those Northern types" were somehow connected with Goths of one stripe of another.) Back in the somewhat more Romantically-inclined day (late '20s, I think), the English translation of Danish philologist Gudmund Schütte's _Vor Folkegruppe Gottjod_ was titled _Our Forefathers: The Gothonic Nations_ (with the further subtitle "a manual of the ethnography of the Gothic, German, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian and Scandinavian peoples").
Neither the ethnography nor the term "Gothonic" stand up well by modern academic standards :) but for a term coined by Romance philologists _there_ to describe "Germanic", it might well do.
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/