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
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)
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.
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)
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