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In A Grammar of Proto-Germanic by Winfred P. Lehmann, it is argued that the Germanic language family shares more vocabulary with the Italic family than with the Celtic language family.
Concerning the relationship between Venetic language and the Germanic languages, Wikipedia says:
The relationship of the Germanic language group to other language groups can only be determined by evidence in the languages. The closest language groups to Germanic are the Balto-Slavic, the Italic, and the Celtic. Yet, unlike Indo-Iranian, Greek, and Armenian, which have the augment as a common innovation as well as extensive verbal inflection, these four western groups lack any common phonological or morphological innovations. They share common vocabulary items, more for instance between Germanic and Italic than between Germanic and Celtic. Some of these may be attributed to a relatively late date, such as the name of a grain, either wheat or spelt, Lat. far, ON bǫrr, and the name of the goat, Lat. haedus, Go. gaits, as well as that of the male goat, Lat. caper, ON hafr.
Concerning the relationship between Venetic language and the Germanic languages, Wikipedia says:
Some important parallels with the Germanic languages have also been noted, especially in pronominal forms:[6]
Venetic: ego = I, accusative mego = me Gothic: ik, accusative mik(Latin: ego, accusative me) Venetic: sselboi sselboi = to oneself Old High German: selb selbo(Latin: sibi ipsi)