FromGermanic +h, due to the prevalence of words with this letter originating from Germanic languages.
Germanich (pluralGermanich's)
- (linguistics)Synonym ofaspiratedh.
1994, Stephen P. Cutts, “The Germanich in French”, inGeneral Linguistics, volume34, numbers3–4, Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies,State University of New York at Binghamton,→ISSN, section 0.0 (Introduction),page145:TheGermanich, on the other hand, was at one time a distinct phoneme in French, much the same as [h] in Modern English (Fouché, 580–581). In this study I first explain how theGermanich came into the French language during the Germanic tribes’ invasions in the fifth century.
