German words from Middle High German
799 German words with Middle High German in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 3).
Bürger
It is inherited from Middle High German burgære, inherited from Old High German burgāri. On the face of it this is an agent noun of Burg with the suffix -āri, but the corresponding Old English…
Bürgermeister
It is inherited from Middle High German burgermeister, a compound from Middle High German burger (“citizen”) + meister (“master”): the head of a town as the “leader of the citizens”, with the older…
Chor
It is inherited from Middle High German kōr, inherited from Old High German chōr, borrowed from Latin chorus (“dance; band of singers”), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós), borrowed in the 9th…
da
The modern word continues a local adverb, inherited from Middle High German dā, also dār, inherited from Old High German dār, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þǣr (“there”). The same adverb is…
dadurch
It is inherited from Middle High German dâdurch, inherited from Old High German dārduruh, formed from German da + durch. The same compound is Middle Dutch daerdore and Dutch daardoor, and the…
dafür
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…
dagegen
It is inherited from Middle High German dargegen, inherited from Old High German daragagan (“against it, on the other hand”), a compound of dara (“there, thither”) and gagan (“against, towards”)…
daher
It is inherited from Middle High German dâher, formed from da and her, recorded since Middle High German and at first often written separately. The same formation is Middle Low German dārhēr and the…
damit
It is inherited from Middle High German dāmit, inherited from Old High German dārmit (“with it; besides; therefore”), formed from German da + mit, from the local adverb and the preposition. The same…
danach
It is inherited from Middle High German danāch or darnāch, inherited from Old High German daranāh, a compound of the adverb dara (“there, thither”) and the preposition nāh (“after”). The same…
dann
It is inherited from Middle High German danne, inherited from Old High German danna, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”). Like Old Frisian thana and Old English þonne, it is the time adverb…
daran
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…
darauf
It is inherited from Middle High German dār ūf, inherited from Old High German dār ūf, a compound of da and auf. Related compounds are Old Saxon thar ûp, Old Frisian therop, Dutch daarop and Danish…
darin
It is inherited from Middle High German dārinne, also dārin, inherited from Old High German dārinne, a compound of dār (“there”) (now da) and inne (“inside”). From early Middle High German it was…
darüber
It is inherited from Middle High German darüber, inherited from Old High German dara ubiri, made of the adverb dar “thither” and über. The first part is thara, an adverb of place answering the…
darum
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…
darunter
It is inherited from Middle High German dārunder, inherited from Old High German dārundere, from Old High German dār (“there”) + untar (“under”), the ancestors of da and unter. The /r/ at the end of…
dass
It is inherited from Middle High German daz, inherited from Old High German daz, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”), and is historically the same word as the neuter nominative singular of…
dauern
It is inherited from Middle High German dūren (also tūren), borrowed from Middle Low German dūren, from Latin dūrō (“to harden; to last, endure”), from dūrus (“hard”). The Latin verb was taken first…
davon
It is inherited from Middle High German dāvon, formed from Middle High German dā (“there”) + von (“from”). The same compound is Middle Low German dārvan, Middle Dutch daervan, Dutch daarvan and Old…
dazu
It is inherited from Middle High German dārzuo, inherited from Old High German darazuo, a compound of the adverb dara (“thither”) and zuo (“to”). Otfrid's spelling tharzua suggests that it was…
dein
It is inherited from Middle High German dīn, inherited from Old High German dīn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz (“your”). The same word is Gothic 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (þeins), Old Norse þinn, Old English…
denken
It is inherited from Middle High German denken, inherited from Old High German denken, also thenken, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to…
denn
It is inherited from Middle High German denne, inherited from Old High German denne, the umlauted variant of danne, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þan. Until the 18th century it did not differ…
dennoch
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…
der
It is inherited from Middle High German der, inherited from Old High German der, a reshaping of an old demonstrative pronoun built on the stem Proto-Indo-European *to-. Most forms of the paradigm…
deshalb
It is inherited from Middle High German deshalp, a fusion of des, the genitive of the pronoun das, with halp, shortened from halbe (“side, direction”). The Middle High German accusative adverb…
deutlich
It is inherited from Middle High German diutlīche, first only an adverb, formed from Middle High German diuten + -lich, now deuten and -lich: “what can easily be interpreted”. Related formations are…
deutsch
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…
Deutsch
It is inherited from Middle High German tiutsch (“the German language”), the adjective deutsch used as a noun. The adjective is diutisch, Old High German diutisc, Old Saxon thiudisc, from Proto-West…
Dezember
It is inherited from Middle High German december, borrowed from Latin December (“the tenth month”), short for mēnsis December. The Latin name is derived from decem (“ten”), but its formation is…
dienen
It is inherited from Middle High German dienen, inherited from Old High German thionōn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þewanōną (“to serve”). The same verb is Old Saxon thionon, Old Frisian thiānia…
Dienst
It is inherited from Middle High German dienest, inherited from Old High German dionōst, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þewanōstaz (“service”), an abstract noun formed with a suffix in -st from the…
Dienstag
It is inherited from Middle High German dienstac, borrowed from Middle Low German dingesdach, a Low German and Lower Rhenish name that spread into High German. The same Lower Rhenish word is Middle…
dieser
It is inherited from Middle High German diser, inherited from Old High German desēr, feminine desiu, neuter diz. The same formation is Old Saxon these (feminine thius), Old Frisian this and Old…
Ding
It is inherited from Middle High German dinc, inherited from Old High German thing, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þing, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þingą (“assembly; appointed time”). The…
doch
It is inherited from Middle High German doch, inherited from Old High German doh, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þauh, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þauh (“nevertheless, though”). The same…
Donnerstag
It is inherited from Middle High German donerstac, inherited from Old High German donarestag, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”), a loan translation from Latin…
Dorf
It is inherited from Middle High German dorf, inherited from Old High German dorf, thorf, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þurpą. The same word is Gothic…
dort
It is inherited from Middle High German dort, inherited from Old High German tharot, beside dorot and thorot, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þārud (“thither”). It was formed from Proto-Germanic…
drehen
It is inherited from Middle High German dræjen, inherited from Old High German drāen, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną. It continues an old strong…
drei
It is inherited from Middle High German drī, inherited from Old High German drī, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes…
dritte
It is inherited from Middle High German dritte, inherited from Old High German dritto, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þridjô (“third”), the ordinal number of drei. The same word is Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰…
drohen
It is inherited from Middle High German drōn, inherited from Old High German drouwen (“to threaten, rebuke”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þrawjan (“to threaten”). The modern form goes back…
Druck
It is inherited from Middle High German druc, inherited from Old High German thruc (“pressure”), a noun formed from the verb drücken. That verb is Old High German drucchen, from Proto-West Germanic…
du
It is inherited from Middle High German dū, inherited from Old High German dū, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þū, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þū. The vowel could be long or short…
durch
It is inherited from Middle High German durch, inherited from Old High German duruh, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þur-h-, inherited from Proto-Germanic *þurhw. The same word is Old Saxon…
dürfen
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…
eben
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…
eher
It is inherited from Middle High German ē, inherited from Old High German ēr (“earlier, before”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *airiz (“earlier”), the adverb of an old comparative. The same adverb…
eigen
It is inherited from Middle High German eigen, inherited from Old High German eigan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *aigan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), originally the past…
eigentlich
It is inherited from Middle High German eigenlich, a derivative with the suffix -lich of the adjective eigen “own” or of the noun eigen (“property”). The /t/ is a glide consonant between /n/ and…
ein
1. The numeral and article is inherited from Middle High German ein, inherited from Old High German ein, inherited from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”). The same word is Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (ains), Old Norse…
Eindruck
It is inherited from Middle High German îndruc, formed from the verb îndrucken (“to press in, imprint”) (today eindrücken), but surely not without the influence of Latin impressiō (“impression”)…
einige
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…
Einsatz
It is inherited from Middle High German īnsaz (“putting in; something put in”), a noun formed from the verb einsetzen. In modern terms it is ein- + Satz, a noun that Kluge takes as formed from the…
einsetzen
It is inherited from Middle High German īnsetzen, inherited from Old High German insezzen (“to put in, place beside”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *insattjan, formed from ein- and setzen. The…
einstellen
It is inherited from Middle High German īnstellen, a late Middle High German verb formed from German ein- + stellen. The same verb is Middle Low German instellen and Middle Dutch instellen, Dutch…
Einwohner
It is inherited from Middle High German inwoner, beside innewoner, formed with -er from the verb einwohnen, innewonen “to dwell in”, from wohnen. Paul takes it as a loan translation of Latin incola…
einzeln
It is inherited from Middle High German einzel, a further formation from einez (“single”), Old High German einaz (“single”), which was formed from the numeral ein with a Germanic suffix in /t/. The…