German words first recorded in the 15th century

It is a noun formed from verlegen in its old sense “to lay out money, take the cost of something on one's own account”, a sense of late Middle High German “verlegen”. The verb itself is legen with…

It is from German vor- + stellen, a verb of New High German: the Grimms' dictionary finds it, like the older fürstellen, only from that period. Dutch voorstellen is formed the same way, and Danish…

It is a univerbation of the phrase zu dem “to that”, the preposition with the dative of the article or demonstrative. The Grimms' dictionary compares the parallel außerdem. In the 16th century the…

It fuses Middle High German ze næhste (“closest”), from ze (“to, at”) and the superlative of nāch (“near”). The Grimms' dictionary takes it as modelled on zuerst. In modern terms it is zu + nächst…

It is formed from German Zusatz + -lich. The noun “addition” is Middle High German and belongs to zusetzen (“to add”), from zu and setzen. The simple verb is Old High German sezzen, Proto-Germanic…

It is from German zuschauen + -er, formed in the 16th century. The Duden dictionary suggests that it was modelled on Latin spectātor (“onlooker”). The verb zuschauen is zu and schauen, from Middle…

It is from German zustehen + -ig. The Grimms' dictionary finds no Middle High German form, but a Middle Low German equivalent tôstendich and a Middle Dutch one, and in early New High German the…