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Old High German

noun

  1. High German before 1100. : OHG, O.H.G., OHG.


Old High German

noun

  1. a group of West Germanic dialects that eventually developed into modern German; High German up to about 1200: spoken in the Middle Ages on the upper Rhine, in Bavaria, Alsace, and elsewhere, including Alemannic, Bavarian, Langobardic, and Upper Franconian OHG
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Old High German1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

And that seems to be Kafka's intention, as the German word he uses for Gregor's new form, "Ungeziefer," suggests a bug, a vermin and, in Old High German, an unclean animal unfit for sacrifice.

From Salon

Scandinavians, Germans, Celts, and Romans have preserved a common name for the ocean—the Old Norse mar, the Old High German mari, the Latin mare.

The etymology of this last name has been much disputed, but there seems now to be little doubt that it is derived from the Old High German chara, meaning suffering or mourning.

Such as it was, the vernacular literature of the Old High German period enjoyed but a brief existence, and in the 10th and 11th centuries darkness again closed over it.

On the other hand, in the Old High German, the Icelandic, and some of the Low German dialects, the word occurs as it does in English.

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