New High German

noun

1. the High German language since c1500.

Example Sentences

Linguists say the regional dialect emerged during the New High German Diphthongization in the Middle Ages, when south-westerners spun off their own approach to vowels.

From Wall Street Journal

In accordance with the three divisions in the history of the High German language, there is an Old High German, a Middle High German and a New High German or Modern High German literary epoch.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

This accounts for the participial form forlorn, or lost, in New High German verloren.

From Project Gutenberg