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

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

Its root occurs in the following adverbial forms: Mœso-Gothic, bats; Old High German, pats; Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon, bet; Middle High German, baz; Middle Dutch, bat, bet.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

There is nothing strange about this; many of these things were still in manuscript and in unknown tongues, Old Norse, Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, Mediaeval Latin.

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

By his studies and translations of Middle High German, he opened the vast and important field of Germanic philology.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright