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From: erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry)
Subject: Re: German and Germanic (was: Re: Development of Slavic Languages?
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Kyle Gryphon (UJZA56B@prodigy.com) wrote:
: True.  I wad just demonstrating the presence of the familiar construction 
: where one wouldn't normally expect  finding it.  It does raise an eyebrow 
: the genetic relationship of "deutsch" and "teutonic" and the imperfect 
: match of these two words and related words across linguistic lines. 
: I guess this must be because there are more words for the same concept in 
: English than German.
: We have Teutonic and Germanic  and separately German
: German  has Germanisch              and separately Deutsch

: Is there actually another word in German too? Just wondering.

Teutonisch. Who'd have thought it.

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Erik Corry, Freiburg, Germany, +49 761 406637 erik@kroete2.freinet.de
