Gothonicadj.n.
/ɡəˈθɒnɪk/ 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.
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Teutonic1619
Gothic1647
Germanic1687
pan-Germanic1850
pan-German1862
pan-Teutonic1863
pan-Gothic1879
Gothonic1912
1912 G. 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’.
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. 195 The oldest Gothonic languages.
1929 J. Young tr. G. Schütte 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’.
1948 E. Partridge World of Words (ed. 2) 77 The Teutonic (or Germanic or, better, Gothonic) languages.
B. n.
The common language of this stock.
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Germanic1718
Teutonic1728
Gothonic1922
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. 42 What is now ordinarily called Germanic and which is in this work called Gothonic.
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. 195 There is a wide gulf between Keltic and Gothonic.
1929 J. Young tr. G. Schütte Our Forefathers vi. 152 Long words formed by derivation are at hand even in the oldest recorded Gothonic.
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