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Definition of Old High German
1. Noun. High German prior to 1200.
Definition of Old High German
1. Proper noun. The early recorded form of the German language, spoken from the 8th century to the 12th century. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old High German
Literary usage of Old High German
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Mod Lang Notes 34:53-4 Ja '19 Forms of linn in Old High German. F.: H. 206-31
My '16 Old maids. See Spinsters Old Northwest. See Northwest territory. ..."
2. American Journal of Education (1862)
"The Middle and the Old High German are the dialects most nearly connected with
our language; and therefore, together with the first elements of the Gothic, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Zorn (anger, wrath, passion, rage, indignation, irritation), which in Middle and
Old High German had the further meanings " quarrel, wordy encounter, Drawl, ..."
4. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... chans«- the linguistic change which divides Old High German from Middle High
German was hardly accomplished before the beginning of the twelfth century; ..."
5. A Brief History of German Literature: Based on Gotthold Klee's "Grundzüge by George Madison Priest, Gotthold Klee (1909)
"... CHAPTER II THE Old High German PERIOD. TO THE oldest extant manuscripts of
German literature date from the second half of the eighth century, ..."
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