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Definitely "Teutonic". See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic>, <http://www.tfd.com/teutonic> That the historical Teutons who Marius fought against were probably Celts is another matter. The root _*teuto-_ 'people' is common to Celtic and Germanic (and Balto- Slavic). A derivative of its Germanic form, _*�eudisko-_, gave the Carolingian Latin term _Theotiska lingua_ 'German (Deutsch) language'. Peter Collier skrev: > If linguists *there* used the term "Germanic" for a group > of northern Romance languages and dialects (aproximately > covering the areas of *our* Hochdeutsch and > Mitteldeutsch), 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? > > > > Peter.