Again, not arguing that it's not a Germanic language, only that it's a lot more complicated than saying it doesn't have a huge Romance language influence that could be considered 'hybrid' (whatever that means).
Gerund is a word that looks like a verb, but it acts like a noun, which French has a ton of, as does English, which is rare in Germanic language.
Your argument is that Old English from Old German (actually Low Countries Germanic is more accurate, as Germanic historically is itself split into two or three 'languages'), thus it hasn't always had anything. Most of the merging happened over thousands of years as people conquered each other. The Romans were in control of modern day Britain for a long time, as did the French, and the Dutch/Frisians/Norse influences came later, but there is a LOT of influence from both languages. English was long seen by royalty and ruling classes to be the language of the 'poor' and spoke French in their courts instead, so to say there was no influence and that there is no hybridization is a stretch imho.
