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Gothonic, a. and n.|gəˈθɒnɪk|
Also † Gotthonic.
[ad. L. Gothōn-es Goths + -ic.]
A name introduced by Dr. Gudmund Schütte to include all early Germanic and Scandinavian peoples.
A. adj. Of or belonging to the primitive Germanic stock.
B. n. The common language of this stock.
1912G. Schütte in Soc. Advancem. Scand. Study, Proc. Ser. Dec. 93 To avoid ambiguity I have adopted the classical form ‘Guttones, Gothones’, and from it formed the adjective ‘Gotthonic’. 1922O. Jespersen Lang. 42 What is now ordinarily called Germanic and which is in this work called Gothonic. Ibid. 195 There is a wide gulf between Keltic and Gothonic. Ibid., The oldest Gothonic languages. 1929J. Young tr. Schütte's Our Forefathers p. x, I call our forefathers ‘Gothonic nations’ so as to avoid the ambiguity attending all the synonyms now in use, both ‘Goths’, ‘Teutons’ and ‘Germanic nations’. Ibid. vi. 152 Long words formed by derivation are at hand even in the oldest recorded Gothonic. 1948Partridge World of Words (ed. 2) 77 The Teutonic (or Germanic or, better, Gothonic) languages. |