High German
Americannoun
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the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's law. HG, H.G.
noun
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HG. the standard German language, historically developed from the form of West Germanic spoken in S Germany See also German Low German
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any of the German dialects of S Germany, Austria, or Switzerland
Etymology
Origin of High German
First recorded in 1700–10
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In Old Dutch there was "fader"; in Old Icelandic we find "faðir"; in Old High German, a precursor to modern German, it was "fater" – now "vater"; and, finally, in Old Danish, "fathær."
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2022
She noted that while places like German Switzerland also practice diglossia, the use of two languages, the difference is that both Swiss German and High German are living, spoken languages.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
Delve a little deeper and you also find the German term for “decoration,” from the Middle High German “smucken,” meaning “to press into.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2010
U.S. university presses usually mosey along about their useful, traditional business, publishing scholarly biographies, monographs on the pterodactyl or .the mud turtle, studies in the. syntax of Middle English or Middle High German prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Van Rusting, doctor of medicine, in Low German language, but now in High German, with necessary notes by John George Meintel in the service of his Serene Highness of Brandenburg, and parson of Petersaurach.”
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
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