I object to the word "Germanic".

English has dominated the world for centuries and has become the most succesful language in history. So why are Germanic languages called that? Germany is a shithole that had maybe 50 good years as an empire (60 if you count Hitler). Nobody even knows the etymology of German. I propose that the word Engloid replaces Germanic in all meanings from now on.

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>Nobody even knows the etymology of German.

Wat.

Germanic is called "Germanic" because Julius Caesar decided to borrow some Gaulish word meaning 'neighbor' (cf. Irish 'comharsa', Welsh 'cymydog'; the "C"s sound like "K"s, and it's an easy switch back and forth from "K" to "G" historically.) to differentiate the Germanic peoples from the Celtic peoples.  In Latin, it's 'Germanicus', meaning "Germanic", and 'Germania', meaning "Germany."

As Latin stuck around for a while, English eventually borrowed the words.

There.  There's you're etymology of German.  Even complete with research outside of Wikipedia.