...the general term for a group of small tribes who spoke languages belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is said that the language is closely related to the Celts and Italics. The origin of the name Germanic is unknown, but the word first appears in literature around 80 BCE in a record by the Greek historian Poseidonius, who described the invasion of Gaul by the small Germanic tribes Cimbri and Teutonicus at the end of the 2nd century BCE. However, there are some records of the Greek navigator Pytheas, who was in Massilia (Marseilles), at the end of the 4th century BCE when he traveled to Norway and the Jutland Peninsula, but the term Germanic was not yet used to refer to the people who lived there. *Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Monarchy Civitas" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…インド・ヨーロッパ語族に属する言語を用いる群小部族集団の総称。言語系統としては,ケルト人やイタリキと親近関係にあるともされている。ゲルマンという呼称の由来は不詳であるが,この語が文献上最初にあらわれるのは,前80年ころ,ギリシアの歴史記述家ポセイドニオスが,前2世紀末におけるゲルマンの小部族,キンブリ族Cimbriとテウトニ族Teutoniのガリアへの侵寇を叙述した記録においてである。もっともそれ以前,前4世紀の末に,マッシリア(マルセイユ)にいたギリシア人航海者ピュテアスが,ノルウェーやユトランド半島に出向いた際の記録の一部が残っているが,そこではまだそこに住んでいた民族について,ゲルマンという呼称は使われていない。… ※「王制キウィタス」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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