New High German
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Its Old High German form is �o, io; in Middle High German, ie; in New High German, je; in Old Saxon, io; in Anglo-Saxon, �; in Norse, �.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
This accounts for the participial form forlorn, or lost, in New High German verloren.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
New High German wird gegeben, ist gegeben worden.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
New High German is the German of books—the literary language—the German that is taught and learned in schools.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
In Old High German we find the form anetrekho = a drake; in provincial New High German there is enterich and �ntrecht, from whence come the English and Low German form, drake.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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