High-german Synonyms

The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. german
  2. German language

Words Related to High-german

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. old-high-german
  2. low-german
  3. middle-high-german

High-german Sentence Examples

  • His German sermons, of which seventy-one have been preserved, are among the most powerful in the language, and form the chief monuments of Middle High German prose.

  • These singers, who, for the most part, belonged to the artisan and trading classes of the German towns, regarded as their masters and the founders of their gild twelve poets of the Middle High German period, among whom were Wolfram von Eschenbach, Konrad von Wurzburg, Reinmar von Zweter and Frauenlob.

  • The office of stadtholder is a proconsulatus, and the High German equivalent is Statthalter, a delegate.

  • In the iith century the German monk Notker Labeo translated the first two books into Old High German.

  • Another but less probable explanation derives the name from a combination of the old high German word uudra, meaning league, and bai, a Gothic word for both.

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