After this Merlyn told vnto kynge Arthur of the prophecye / that there shold be a grete batail besyde Salysbury and Mordred his owne sone sholde be ageynste hym / Also he tolde hym that Basdemegus was his cosyn and germayn vnto kynge Vryence
1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.2:
The phrase would bee more Germaine.
Shakespeare
Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.
puhekieltä A near relative.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
Which when his german saw, the stony feare / Ran to his hart, and all his sence dismayd (..)