High German

noun

the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's law. : HG, H.G.
German ( def 4 ).

High German

See German, Low German
the standard German language, historically developed from the form of West Germanic spoken in S Germany HG See also German Low German
any of the German dialects of S Germany, Austria, or Switzerland

First recorded in 1700–10

We have never borrowed directly from High-German, because we have never needed to borrow.

Those were more or less the first sentences which I was given to read in our dear High-German language.

The origin of this is the Old High German scirman, to fight behind a shield, scirm.

Freidank, the composer of a Middle High German didactic poem, which belongs to the first half of the thirteenth century.

The -r first appears in the Old High German; wisu, was, wrums, wsaner.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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