Middle High German

American  

noun

1. the High German language of the period 1100–1500. MHG, M.H.G.

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Middle High German British  

noun

1.  MHG.  High German from about 1200 to about 1500

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Etymology

Origin of Middle High German

First recorded in 1830–35

Example Sentences

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Middle High German

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

Much was in dialects little understood-forgotten forms of speech-Old French, Middle High German, Old Norse, medieval Latin, the ancient Erse and Cymric tongues, Anglo-Saxon.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Ulrich von Liechtenstein, a Middle High German poet, born about 1200, and died in 1276.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

Lessing, in his preface to Gleim's 'War-songs,' called attention to the Middle High German poets, of whom he continued to be throughout his life an ardent admirer.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)