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Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.

The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.

Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

The German language.

An idiom of the German language.

To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.

The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.

An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism. Addison.

To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. T. Warton.

A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.

efixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

The language used by the gypsies. Shak.

ound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide t…

Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. Hamitic languages, the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Somâli Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. Keith Johnson.