I referred to some Dutch as Gothic, that is Germanic.
Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_language
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages and includes languages such as German, English and Dutch. The other branches of the Germanic languages are the North and East Germanic languages.
From the time of their earliest attestation, the Germanic varieties are divided into three groups, West, East and North Germanic. Their exact relation is difficult to determine from the sparse evidence of runic inscriptions, and they remained mutually intelligible throughout the Migration period, so that some individual varieties are difficult to classify.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germanic_languages
The East Germanic languages are a group of extinct Indo-European languages in the Germanic family. The only East Germanic language of which texts are known is Gothic; other languages that are assumed to be East Germanic include Vandalic, Burgundian, and Crimean Gothic. Crimean Gothic is believed to have survived until the 18th century.
My line of thought: West and East Germanic came from the same source, as mutually intelligible languages logically would have. Instead of differating the categories, I put them together, and as the old Germanic is, by me, considered dead, I draw a parallel
to what I assume was the racial classification for these people at that time; goths. It may not be historically correct, but I for one think it's a fairly good category to place the whole prime-german ancestry into. Goths, Vikings, Mongols, Tatars are expressions that I feel account for a big chunk of the eurasian population, without going to deep into what gives birth to who, and which sub-genre goes where and whether or not yabba dabba wabba.