German words first recorded in the 8th century

It is inherited from Middle High German suln, inherited from Old High German sculan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skulan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skulaną, a preterite-present verb…

It is inherited from Middle High German spur, inherited from Old High German spor, inherited from Proto-Germanic *spurą (“track”). The same word is Old Norse spor, Old English spor, Middle Low…

It is inherited from Middle High German stant (“standing, place of standing”), inherited from Old High German *stant, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *stand. The Old High German noun is found…

It is inherited from Middle High German stein, inherited from Old High German stein, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *stain, inherited from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”). The same word is…

It is inherited from Middle High German stimme, inherited from Old High German stimma or stimna, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *stebnu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *stebnō (“voice”). Kluge…

It is inherited from Middle High German stunde, inherited from Old High German stunta, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“period of time, point in…

It is inherited from Middle High German tiure, inherited from Old High German tiuri (“precious, dear, esteemed”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz…

It is inherited from Middle High German tisch, inherited from Old High German tisc, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“dish”), an early borrowed from Latin discus (“discus; flat dish…

It is inherited from Middle High German titel, inherited from Old High German titul, borrowed from Latin titulus (“inscription, heading, title”), borrowed in the 8th century. Old High German also…

It is inherited from Middle High German vierde, inherited from Old High German fiordo, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, inherited from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô (“fourth”), the ordinal of…

It is inherited from Middle High German wār, inherited from Old High German wār, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *wār, inherited from Proto-Germanic *wēraz. Beside it stood a j-stem wāri, wære…

It is inherited from Middle High German warten, inherited from Old High German wartēn, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *wardēn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard, watch over”)…

It is inherited from Middle High German wīsen, inherited from Old High German wīsen (“to lead, show”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *wīsijan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *wīsijaną. The same…

It is inherited from Middle High German wīt, inherited from Old High German wīt, inherited from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz (“wide”). The same word is Old Saxon wīd, Old Norse víðr, Old English wīd and…

It is inherited from Middle High German wirken, inherited from Old High German wirken, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *wirkijan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *wirkijaną (“to make, produce”)…

It is inherited from Middle High German wonen, inherited from Old High German wonēn (“to stay, dwell; to be accustomed”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *wunēn, inherited from Proto-Germanic…

It is inherited from Middle High German zellen (also zeln), inherited from Old High German zellen, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count…

It is inherited from Middle High German zesamene, inherited from Old High German zisamane, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *te samanǣ (“together”). The same West Germanic formation is Old Saxon…

It is inherited from Middle High German zwelf, inherited from Old High German zwelif, inherited from Proto-Germanic *twalif (“twelve”). The same numeral is Gothic 𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍆 (twalif), Old Norse tólf…

It is inherited from Middle High German einic, inherited from Old High German einīg (“any”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *ainag, used in the plural; the word was formed from the numeral ein…

It is inherited from Middle High German gewalt, inherited from Old High German giwalt, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *gawald, inherited from Proto-Germanic *gawaldą. Like Old Frisian wald, it…

It is inherited from Middle High German mit, inherited from Old High German mit, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *midi, inherited from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with”). The same word is Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌸…

It is inherited from Middle High German begin, a noun formed from the verb beginnen. The older Old High German bigin “beginning, origin” is so rarely attested that the Old High German dictionary…

It is inherited from Middle High German erzellen, inherited from Old High German irzellen, formed from German er- + zählen. The simple verb is Old High German zellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną…

It is inherited from Middle High German kopf (“drinking vessel, skull, head”), inherited from Old High German kopf (“cup, bowl”), which Kluge, Pfeifer and the Duden dictionary take as an early loan…

It is inherited from Middle High German merze, inherited from Old High German merzo, borrowed from Latin Mārtius (“(month) of Mars”), the month dedicated to the war god Mārs, which was the first…

It is inherited from Middle High German stōzen, inherited from Old High German stōzan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *stautan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *stautaną (“to push, bump, jolt”), a…

It is inherited from Middle High German vertreten, inherited from Old High German firtretan (“to trample down”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fratredan (“to tread upon”), formed with the…

It is inherited from Middle High German weter, inherited from Old High German wetar, inherited from Proto-Germanic *wedrą (“weather”). The same word is Old Saxon wedar (“weather, storm”), Old Norse…

It is inherited from Middle High German diutisch, inherited from Old High German diutisc, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people”), an…

It is inherited from Middle High German arbeiten, inherited from Old High German arbeiten, inherited from Proto-Germanic *arbaidijaną, a verb formed from the noun Arbeit. The same verb is Gothic…

It is inherited from Middle High German dārumbe, inherited from Old High German dārumbi, a compound from Old High German dār (“there”) + umbi (“around”): the adverb da and the preposition um. The…

It is inherited from Middle High German eben, inherited from Old High German eban, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *ebn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz (“even, level”). The adverb continues…

It is inherited from Middle High German endecken, inherited from Old High German intdecken (“to uncover”), a formation with the prefix ent- on decken. The same formation is Middle Low German…

It is inherited from Middle High German erkennen, inherited from Old High German irkennen (also arkennen), formed from German er- + kennen. The prefix originally marked the beginning of the action…

It is inherited from Middle High German erlouben, inherited from Old High German irlouben, inherited from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijaną (“to allow”). The same verb is Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (uslaubjan), Old…

It is from German er- + richten, a prefixed form of the verb meaning “to set straight, to direct”. Old High German already had irrihten (“to set up, raise; to instruct”) from about 800, but the verb…

It is inherited from Middle High German vüelen, inherited from Old High German fuolen (“to touch, feel”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”). The same verb is Old Saxon…

It is inherited from Middle High German vünf, inherited from Old High German fimf, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fimf, inherited from Proto-Germanic *fimf, inherited from Proto-Indo-European…

1. The verb meaning “to rebuke” is inherited from Middle High German verwīzen, inherited from Old High German firwīzan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *frawītan, inherited from Proto-Germanic…

It is inherited from Middle High German vorsëhen, inherited from Old High German forasëhan (“to foresee”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *forēsehwan, formed from vor- and sehen. The same…

It is inherited from Middle High German anevanc, inherited from Old High German anafang, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *anafangi (“grasp, embrace”). The noun belongs to the verb anfangen, Old…

It is inherited from Middle High German anesiht, inherited from Old High German anasiht, a compound from Old High German ana (“on, at”) + siht (“sight”), parallel to the verb ansehen. The noun…

It is inherited from Middle High German balde, inherited from Old High German baldo, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, inherited from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“bold, strong”): an adverb of…

1. The round object is inherited from Middle High German bal, inherited from Old High German bal, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *ballu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *balluz. The same word is…

It is inherited from Middle High German berc, inherited from Old High German berg, inherited from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain”). The same word is Old Saxon berg, Old Frisian berch, Old English…

It is inherited from Middle High German bezeichenen, inherited from Old High German bizeihhanen (also bizeihhanōn), a prefixed form of Old High German zeihhanen (“to mark, show”) (modern zeichnen)…

It is inherited from Middle High German blic, inherited from Old High German blik, inherited from Proto-Germanic *blikaz (“shine, gleam”). The same word is Middle Low German blick, Middle Dutch…

It is inherited from Middle High German bodem, inherited from Old High German bodam, inherited from Proto-Germanic *butmaz (“bottom”). The same word is Old Saxon bodom, Old English botm, Old Frisian…

It is inherited from Middle High German brief, inherited from Old High German briaf, an early borrowed from Latin breve (“short writing, document”), the neuter of the adjective brevis (“short”)…

It is from German da + bei, already Old High German dār bī and Middle High German dâbî. The same compound is Old Saxon thar bi, Old Frisian therbī, Old English þǣr-bi, Dutch daarbij and Yiddish…

It is inherited from Middle High German dāvür, inherited from Old High German dārfuri, a compound of dār (“there”) and furi (“for, before”), that is, da and für. Otfrid and Notker also have the form…

It is inherited from Middle High German dāran, inherited from Old High German dārana (also daraana), formed from German da + an. Both adverbs dār (“there”) and dara (“thither”) were combined with…

It is inherited from Middle High German dennoch, inherited from Old High German thenninoh, a compound from Old High German thanne (“then”) + noh (“still”), at first written separately. Its parts are…

It is inherited from Middle High German durfen, inherited from Old High German durfan (“to need, have cause to”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þurban, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þurbaną…

It is inherited from Middle High German ervarn, inherited from Old High German irfaran, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *uʀfaran, the verb fahren “to go, travel” with the prefix er-. Wiktionary…

It is inherited from Middle High German erhœhen, inherited from Old High German irhōhen, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *uʀhauhijan (“to raise”), formed with the prefix er- from the verb höhen…

It is inherited from Middle High German vīren, inherited from Old High German fīrōn, a verb formed from the noun fīra (“feast, rest”), now Feier. That noun is borrowed from Late Latin fēria (“feast…

It is inherited from Middle High German vürdern, inherited from Old High German furdiren, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *furþrijan, a verb derived from the comparative adverb fürder “further…

It is inherited from Middle High German vorderunge, inherited from Old High German fordarunga, a noun formed with -ung from fordern, vordern, Old High German fordarōn. The verb is a derivative of…