Etymonline pushes the date for the parents of brittle even further back, invoking proto-germanic, Old High German and Old Norse.
把brittle的祖先再往前推了不少年份，触及古日耳曼语，古高地德语，以及古斯堪地那维亚语。
He asked in his Germanic English if I was enjoying France.
他用他那德国式英语问我在法国玩得是否愉快。
Privately, Mr Van Rompuy's instincts may be more Germanic than French.
就个人而言，范佩龙的直觉比起法国式的而言似乎更趋向于德国。
Privately, Mr Van Rompuy’s instincts may be more Germanic than French.
就个人而言，范佩龙的直觉比起法国式的而言似乎更趋向于德国。
The Teutonic languages derive from Primitive Germanic.
日耳曼语言起源于原始的日耳曼语。
English is a branch of the Germanic family of languages.
英语是日耳曼语系的一个分支。
That is why Latin words sound more prestigious than Germanic ones.
这就是为什么拉丁词汇比日耳曼词汇听上去更高大上。
Doctors were called leeches based on a Germanic root that meant "to heal."
基于表示“治愈”的日耳曼词根，医生也被称为leeches。
So both stammer and stutter evolved from the same Germanic language family.
因此，stammer和stutter 都由日耳曼语语系演化而来。
Elements of Santa Claus folklore are likewise derived from Germanic traditions.
圣诞老人民间传说的因素还来自于德国的传统。
All the Old Germanic languages had words beginning with hl -, hn -, hr -, and hw -.
所有的古日耳曼语言中，都有以字母组合hl-，hn -，hr -和hw -开始的单词。
No one knows what made the Germanic language branch off from the Indo-European family.
无人知晓什么原因导致了日耳曼语从印欧语系中脱离。
It came to English from Latin and shows up in a bunch of other Germanic languages as well.
它从拉丁语进入英语，而且它也在其他一些日耳曼语言中出现。
The name "shield volcano" comes from their resemblance to the shields of early Germanic warriors.
盾形火山因它们的形状类似早期德国战士的盾而得名。
The sound b occurs after m in the Old English form and in all its Germanic and more distant cognates.
声音b在m后发声，在古英语的形式里是这样，在其它所有日耳曼和更遥远的同源词里也是一样。
Germanic generals sometimes used their military power to advance their own and their tribes' interests.
日耳曼将军们有时会利用他们的军事力量来为自身和部族获取更多利益。
This word had been part of English since the Germanic peoples came across the English channel in around 450.
自从日耳曼人在公元450年左右横跨英吉利海峡来到这片土地，这个单词就进入了英语。
In the Germanic group of languages, only Icelandic still has a semblance of hl -, hn -, and hr - in pronunciation.
在日耳曼语族的语言中，只有冰岛语的发音中还有类似hl-，hn -和hr -的音。
Our English word comes from Germanic stock because it appears in Old English pretty early, back before the year 700.
这个英语词汇源于日耳曼语系，因为它出现在古英语的早期，可追溯到公元700年。
But there was a Middle English stut that came before with the same meaning, and that can be traced to Germanic roots.
不过，在此之前，有个中世纪英语单词stut具有同样的含义，而且可以追溯到日耳曼语根源。
But back in the Germanic languages that the word grew out of, it had been two words that roughly translate as “loaf warden.”
然而，当人们将这个单词一直追溯到其源头——日耳曼语族——的时候，就会发现，它原来是一个由两个词所构成的词组，大概有“面包管理员”（loaf warden）的意思。
Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words.
最初，它是日耳曼语，而在1066年诺曼征服之后，大量法语词汇涌入（英语）。
The nature of the hoard accords with the militarism of the Germanic tribes, which was impressive even to the military-minded Romans.
这个窖藏的性质与日耳曼部落的尚武精神一致，连具有着深厚的尚武性的罗马人，对他们的尚武精神都印象深刻。
He recognized that Sanskrit, the language of India, was related very closely to Latin, Greek, and the Germanic and Celtic languages.
他认识到梵语，即印度的语言，与拉丁语、希腊语、日尔曼语和凯尔特语密切同源。
He recognized that Sanskrit, the language of India, was related very closely to Latin, Greek, and the Germanic and Celtic languages.
他认识到梵语，即印度的语言，与拉丁语、希腊语、日尔曼语和凯尔特语密切同源。
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