Teutonophone

See also: teutonophone

English

Alternative forms

• teutonophone
• Teutophone, teutophone

Etymology

From Teutono- +‎ -phone.

Adjective

Teutonophone (comparative more Teutonophone, superlative most Teutonophone)

1. German-speaking.

   Synonym: Germanophone

   • 1992, “The Central Mediterranean Coast”, in Alan Tucker, editor, The Berlitz Travellers Guide to Turkey 1992, New York, N.Y.: Berlitz Publishing Company, Inc.; Oxford: Berlitz Publishing Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 404:

     This chorus of signs rises to a clamor around Side, a favorite Teutonophone destination (over 80 percent of the tourists who visit this region are German, Austrian, or Swiss).

   • 1994, Victor Saunders, No Place to Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya, Vertebrate Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN:

     Bruno and Ernst from the international Teutonophone (German, Austrian and Swiss) expedition arrived during breakfast.

   • 1995, J. C. Wright, “Johann Otto Ferdinand Kirste: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Walter Slaje. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 33.) [xv], 374 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 98.”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume LVIII, →ISSN, page 173, column 1:

     Johann Kirste (1851–1920) of Graz and Vienna, Indo-Europeanist and Indo-Iranianist, is doubtless the least renowned of all those Teutonophone Indologists whose works have been reissued in the Glasenapp Foundation’s series of Kleine Schriften.

   • 2001 October 8, bill walsh, “? on Good Times...Good Times.....(repeat)”, in alt.tv.newsradio (Usenet):

     Word Guy, as his Teutonophone alter ego, Wortkerl, must note: "Also Herr James, wie heißt denn ihr Buch?

   • 2007 August 6, RapidRonnie, “Very interesting, these horrible Germans....”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet):

     Only amusement that the Teutonophone tech press, with a small number of potential readers, as compared to English, has such a rich selection of new books on the subject and of a very much higher tech standard.

   • 2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “[[Elagabal’s Idyll] Critical review of the academic literature to date] Second stage of the discussion, 1902-1962”, in Varian Studies Volume Two: Elagabal, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:

     The notion of a supposed Orientalisation of Rome has tended to dominate this aspect of the discussion, especially among Teutonophone scholars.

Translations

German-speaking — see Germanophone

Noun

Teutonophone (plural Teutonophones)

1. A speaker of the German language.

   Synonym: Germanophone

   • 1994, Victor Saunders, No Place to Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya, Vertebrate Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN:

     Bruno and Ernst from the international Teutonophone (German, Austrian and Swiss) expedition arrived during breakfast. […] The sight of the Teutonophones gave Steve one of his brilliant ideas: Bruno and Ernst could use our tents here, in exchange we would sleep at their camp on the way up to the Makalu La, kick-off point for an attempt on either Kangchungtse to the north, or the main challenge of the Makalu traverse to the south.

   • 1997, Owen Dudley Edwards, “Robertsonian Romanticism and realism”, in Stewart J. Brown, editor, William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire, Cambridge University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, section IV, page 117:

     Gooch, following Acton, was concerned to show the new German professionalisation of history in the nineteenth century: clearly, only Teutonophones might apply.

   • 2001 July 9, John H. McCloskey, “A Little E-Garden of "Rule Of Law" (I)”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

     (The name "Gopal Balakrishnan" somehow leads me to doubt that this biographer is any more a native Teutonophone than I am....)

   • 2006 May 23, JHM, “VERFASSUNGSSCHUTZBERICHT!”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

     (( An interesting case. Here in the Eastern Massachusetts of John Winthrop and Cotton Mather and Calvin Coolidge and even Mitt Romney one vaguely supposes that all Teutonophones give absolutely everthing^[sic] the patented Leo Strauss Treatment, or perhaps the discredited Adolf Hitler Treatment, automatically -- crush, Crumble, CHOMP! -- but here's a headline where they have have^[sic] to resort to lowly English even to say what it is they want done. And yet at the same time, a Wingnut City goodie like _aufzufordern alle Bürger zum Schulterschluß im Kampf gegen den Rechtsextremismus_ can hardly be translated at all without non-Teutons and non-Straussians supposin' that you're only just makin' fun of 'em somehow. ))

   • 2008, Bill Kauffman, Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Martin Luther, ISI Books, →ISBN:

     The Maryland legislature authorized the printing and distribution of two thousand copies of the Constitution, as well as three hundred copies of a German translation for Teutonophones.

Translations

German-speaker — see Germanophone