German words first recorded in the 15th century

It is formed from German beziehen + -ung. Kluge connects it with the sense of beziehen that is most important today, “to draw together, make a connection”. The verb is from Middle High German…

It is inherited from Middle High German beruof (“reputation, repute”), a noun formed from berufen. The verb is Middle High German beruofen (“to call together, proclaim”), a prefixed form of rufen…

It is from German dieser (“this”) + Mal (“time”), fused from the syntactic group, with the variant diesesmal. The same formation is Middle Low German ditmāl and Dutch ditmaal.

It is from German erinnern + -ung, formed in the 15th century, beside Middle Low German erinneringe, older erinninge. The verb erinnern (14th century; Middle High German innern, geinnern (“to make…

It is a noun of action formed from German ausstellen + -ung. Beside the verb there was Middle Low German ûtstellinge. The verb is made of aus and stellen, and is found from Early New High German on…

It is from German in + dem, the preposition with the dative of the article, written as one word. Middle High German already had the phrase ⟨in dem⟩, which corresponds to Old High German innan thiu…

It is inherited from Middle High German franzoisisch (also franzoisch), formed from Middle High German franzois (“French”) + -isch, from Old French françois. The Old French adjective belongs to…

It is borrowed from Latin familia (“the household servants; the whole household”), a collective noun formed to famulus (“servant”). Pfeifer dates the borrowing to the early 15th century; it spread…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin commissio (“order, summons”), a legal and administrative term borrowed in the 15th century. The Medieval Latin senses developed from the classical noun for “union…

It is borrowed from Italian milione (“great thousand”), an augmentative with the suffix -one of mille (“thousand”), from Latin mīlle. The Italian word, at first without a fixed value, spread from…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin policia (“state administration”), from Late Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “citizenship, administration, constitution”), from πολίτης…

It is borrowed from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation; instruction”), a noun from īnfōrmō (“to shape; to instruct”), from in- and fōrmō (“to shape, form”), from fōrma (“shape, form”). The verb…

It is a noun formed in the 16th century from German fehlen (“to miss, fail”) + -er; it has the shape of an agent noun, but names the action, and was first used of a shot that misses its mark. The…

It is borrowed from Latin auctor (“originator, founder, author”), also spelled autor in Latin, an agent noun of augeō (“to increase, promote”), borrowed in the 15th century. Literally the Latin word…

It is borrowed from Latin āctiō (“movement, action, deed; lawsuit, legal claim”), the abstract noun of agō (“to drive, do, act”), borrowed in the later 15th century. The legal sense “action at law…

It is borrowed from French canton (“corner; district”), from Italian cantone, an augmentative of canto (“corner”). Pfeifer traces the Swiss word instead to the Lombard use of the same noun for a…

It is borrowed from Latin secunda, short for pars minūta secunda (“second diminished part”), borrowed in the later 15th century. Pfeifer names the source as Medieval Latin secundum, a neuter, and…

It is borrowed from Latin regiō (“direction, line; area, district”), borrowed in the second half of the 15th century. The Latin noun is derived from regō (“to direct, guide”), in the sense “to mark…

It is a noun formed from strecken (“to stretch”). Middle High German has it only in the compound Middle High German zilstrecke (“stretch of way to a goal, racecourse”); as a free noun it is known…

It is borrowed from Latin absolūtus (“detached, independent, complete, unconditional”), borrowed in the late 15th century, the past participle of absolvō (“to loosen, release, acquit, complete”)…

It is borrowed from Latin dīrēctus (“straightened, directed”), borrowed in the late 15th century, the past participle of dīrigō (“to set straight, direct”), from dis- and regō (“to guide, rule”)…

It is borrowed from Latin prōductum (“something brought forth”), the neuter past participle of prōdūcō (“to lead forth, extend; to bring forth”) used as a noun. The Latin verb is formed from prō-…

It is borrowed from Italian posta (“relay station”), taken over together with the institution at the end of the 15th century. The Italian word meant a fixed place, the station where riders and…

It is from German ab- + schließen (“to close, lock”). Paul traces it to Middle Low German afsluten, and finds it in High German from the 16th century, though it only became common in the 18th. The…

It is from German besuchen + -er, an agent noun of the verb “to visit”. The verb is Middle High German besuochen, Old High German bisuohhen (around 1000), from the prefix bi- and suohhen (“to…

It is a prefixed verb from German be- + treffen, formed in Early New High German. The Grimms found no Old or Middle High German form of the verb, though the simple verb Old High German treffan could…

It is shortened from the older bissolang, a fusion of bis “until”, so and lang “long”. Kluge dates it to the 16th century and marks it as a word of northern Germany. Its first part is Middle High…

It is from German er- + ganz, a prefixed derivative of the adjective meaning “whole”, with umlaut. The revised Grimm allows it to be either that or a prefixed form of Middle High German genzen (“to…

It is a 16th-century fusion from German gegen + über. In Middle High German each of the prepositions could mean “opposite” on its own; they were then combined, at first freely in either order…

It is from German Haufen + -ig, formed in the 16th century and first meaning “in heaps, heaped”; Wiktionary analyses it as the stem of häufen with the suffix. It displaced the older form häuficht in…

It is a compound of hin and gegen. The first part is Middle High German hin, Old High German hina (“away from here”), formed with an n-suffix from the pronoun stem Proto-Germanic *hi- (“this”)…

It is from German immer + hin: the adverb meaning “always” joined with the adverb of direction meaning “onward, away”. In the 16th century the parts were still written separately, as in Luther's…

It is borrowed from Latin Iūlius (“July”), short for mēnsis Iūlius, the month named after Gaius Julius Caesar, who reformed the calendar. The German form comes from the Latin genitive Iūliī, used in…

It is borrowed from Latin Iūnius (“(month) of Juno”), the name of the Roman month consecrated to the goddess Iūnō (“Juno”), queen of the gods and wife of Jupiter. The modern form developed from the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin catholicus (“universal; orthodox”), borrowed in the 16th century, though the Latin word already appears in Old High German texts of the 8th century. The Latin…

It is borrowed from Middle Low German knap (“narrow, scarce, sparse”), taken into the literary language in the 16th century. Related words are Dutch knap (“close-fitting, quick, clever”), Old Norse…

It is borrowed from Latin conceptum (“something conceived”), borrowed in the 16th century; Pfeifer adds the influence of conceptus (“a taking in; thought, purpose”), since the German word first also…

The word is formed from German Kunst (“art; originally knowledge, skill”) + -ler, and is first recorded in the 16th century. The Grimms' dictionary finds it already so widespread then that it must…

It is borrowed from Latin litterātūra (“writing in letters; grammar, philology”), a learned borrowing of the 16th century. In Late Latin the word also meant “written works”. It is formed from…

It is a shortening of einmal, which was itself formed in the 16th century from the accusative phrase meaning “one time”, with the noun Mal “point in time”. The multiplication sense comes directly…

It is a compound from German manch + Mal, the uninflected pronoun run together with the noun, recorded from the 16th century. The first part is Middle High German manec, Old High German manag…

It is a fusion of the Middle High German phrase in mitler wīle (“in the meantime”), with the dative singular of the adjective mittel “middle” and of the noun Weile “while”. The adjective is Middle…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin musicālis, borrowed at the beginning of the 16th century. The Medieval Latin adjective belongs to Latin mūsica (“music”), from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ)…

It is borrowed from New Latin nātiōnālis, with the influence of French national, which gave it its political sense in the second half of the 18th century. The Duden dictionary and the Grimms take it…

It is a compound of Not “distress, need” and the verb wenden “to turn, avert”, first meaning “averting distress”: a word for measures that ward off a need and are therefore indispensable. Wiktionary…

It comes from the noun Paar, “pair”, used loosely for a small number. That noun is Middle High German pār, taken after the High German consonant shift from Latin pār (“equal; as a noun, companion…

It is borrowed from French passer (“to pass, go through”), borrowed in the early 16th century. The French verb continues Vulgar Latin *passō (“to step, pass through”), from Latin passus (“step”)…

It is borrowed from Late Latin practicus (“active”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “concerned with action, active, efficient”), from πράσσω (prā́ssō, “to do, accomplish”). Pfeifer and…

It is borrowed from French président, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding, commanding”), the present participle of praesideō (“to preside, lead, command”), used as a noun. That verb is formed from…

It is borrowed from Latin prīvātus (“set apart (from the state), not public”), borrowed in the 16th century; the Latin word is the past participle of prīvō (“to deprive, free, set apart”), from…

It is borrowed from Latin problēma, from Ancient Greek πρόβλημα (próblēma, “something put forward; obstacle; a question set”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “to throw forward, put forward”), from πρό…

It is borrowed from Latin professor (“public teacher”), borrowed in the 16th century, an agent noun of profiteor (“to declare publicly, profess”), from prō- and fateor (“to confess, acknowledge”)…

It is the adverbial genitive of recht, from German recht + -s, formed as the opposite of links. The right side is the “correct” one, the right hand the skilful one, as against the left. The…

It is a verb formed from Scheiter (“logs”), an older plural of Scheit “log, split piece of wood”. Its literal meaning was “to break into pieces”, said of vehicles and above all of ships that were…

It is from German schließen + -lich, formed in Early New High German. The verb goes back to Middle High German sliezen, Old High German sliozan and Proto-West Germanic *sleutan (“to bolt, lock”)…

It is borrowed from Italian spasso (“amusement, pastime”), recorded first in the 16th century in the unadapted form Spasso and in its present form from the 17th. The Italian noun is formed from…

It is a derivation from German Tat (“deed, act”) + -ig. As an independent word it appears only in the 16th century; before that tætic and Old High German tātīg occurred only at the end of compounds…

It was formed in the 16th century from German über- + rasch, “to be quicker than someone, to fall upon someone quickly”. Middle Low German had a similar vorraschen (“to take by surprise”). The base…

It is from German verfügen + -ung. The verb verfügen is recorded from the 15th century, as Early New High German ⟨verfüegen⟩ and Middle Low German vorvogen (“to arrange”); Köbler and Duden also list…

It is a back-formation from the verb verkaufen, made in Early New High German; the older noun was Verkaufung. The verb is Middle High German verkoufen, Old High German firkoufen, formed with the…