Germanic vs Old Norse

Old Norse vs Germanic

Germanic and Old Norse both are nouns.

Germanic is an adjective but Old Norse is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Germanic	Yes	Yes	No	No
Old Norse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Old Norse is a hyponym of Germanic; that is, Old Norse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Germanic:

Germanic: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
Old Norse: the extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350

Other hyponyms of Germanic include West Germanic, West Germanic language, Proto-Norse, Proto-Norse language, Old Norse language, Nordic, Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic language, Scandinavian, Scandinavian language, East Germanic, East Germanic language.

Germanic (noun)	Old Norse (noun)
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic	the extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350

Germanic (adjective)	Old Norse (adjective)
of or relating to the language of Germans
of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages

Difference between Germanic and Old Norse

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