Middle High German
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Middle High German
First recorded in 1830–35
Example Sentences
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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
An example of the mediaeval belief is found in the Middle High German Kudrun, written at the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall
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
The rank of Epic is assigned by many to the Nibelungenlied, not to speak of other Middle High German poems on themes of German tradition.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
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