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 6).
Glück
It is inherited from Middle High German gelücke (“fate, chance”), first recorded in the early courtly poetry of about 1160. The word spread over the German-speaking area from the Rhine and the…
Gott
It is inherited from Middle High German got, inherited from Old High German got, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *god, inherited from Proto-Germanic *gudą (“god”). The same word is Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸…
Grad
It is inherited from Middle High German grāt, inherited from Old High German grād (“step, rank”), borrowed from Latin gradus (“step, stage, degree, rank”), borrowed about 1000, a noun of gradior…
greifen
It is inherited from Middle High German grîfen, inherited from Old High German grīfan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *grīpan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną (“to grab, grasp”), a strong…
Grenze
It is inherited from Middle High German grenize, borrowed from Polish granica (“boundary mark, border”). Pfeifer names Old Polish as the source and says it was borrowed along the whole length of the…
groß
It is inherited from Middle High German grōz, inherited from Old High German grōz, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *grauta-, an adjective found only in West Germanic. The same word is Old Saxon…
grün
It is inherited from Middle High German grüene, inherited from Old High German gruoni, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *grōniz (“green”). The same adjective…
Grund
It is inherited from Middle High German grunt, inherited from Old High German grunt, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *grunduz (“ground, bottom”). The same…
gründen
It is inherited from Middle High German gründen, inherited from Old High German grunten (“to fathom, explore”), a verb formed from the noun grunt (“ground, bottom”), the ancestor of Grund. The…
Grüne
The feminine is inherited from Middle High German grüene, inherited from Old High German gruonī, an abstract noun formed with the suffix /-ī/ from the adjective grün, like Old High German rōtī…
Gruß
It is inherited from Middle High German gruoz (“greeting; challenge, attack”), a back-formation from grüßen. The verb is Middle High German grüezen, Old High German gruozen (“to address; to…
gut
It is inherited from Middle High German guot, inherited from Old High German guot, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, inherited from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“suitable, good”). The same word is…
Gut
It is inherited from Middle High German guot, inherited from Old High German guot (“good; goodness; property”), the adjective gut used as a neuter noun. The same use of the adjective is found in Old…
haben
It is inherited from Middle High German haben, inherited from Old High German habēn, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, hold”). The same…
halb
It is inherited from Middle High German halp, inherited from Old High German halb, inherited from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”). The same word is Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs), Old Norse hálfr, Old English…
Halle
It is inherited from Middle High German halle, inherited from Old High German halla (“temple; market hall”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall…
halten
It is inherited from Middle High German halten, inherited from Old High German haltan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to hold, keep”), originally a reduplicating strong verb. The same word…
Hand
It is inherited from Middle High German hant, inherited from Old High German hant, inherited from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”). The same word is Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus), Old Norse hǫnd, Old…
handeln
It is inherited from Middle High German handeln, inherited from Old High German hantalōn (“to touch, handle, treat”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *handulōn, inherited from Proto-Germanic…
hängen
It is inherited from Middle High German hāhen, inherited from Old High German hāhan (“to hang up, crucify”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną (“to hang”), a strong verb, blended with hangen…
hart
It is inherited from Middle High German hart, inherited from Old High German hart (“hard, firm, strict, harsh”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard”). Beside it stood Old High German herti…
Hauptstadt
It is inherited from Middle High German houbetstat, inherited from Old High German houbitstat, a compound from German Haupt (“head”) + Stadt (“town”). The first part, Middle High German houbet, Old…
Haus
It is inherited from Middle High German hūs, inherited from Old High German hūs, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”). The same word is Old Saxon…
heftig
It is inherited from Middle High German heftec (“firm, persistent”), whose origin is disputed. Pfeifer, Duden and Paul derive it from the adjective Old High German haft (“bound, captive”), the base…
Heimat
It is inherited from Middle High German heimuote (also heimōte), inherited from Old High German heimōti, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *haimōdī (“homeland”), a word found only in German. It is…
heiß
It is inherited from Middle High German heiz, inherited from Old High German heiz, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hait, inherited from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”). The same word is Old Saxon…
heißen
It is inherited from Middle High German heizen, inherited from Old High German heizan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *haitan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *haitaną (“to call, name”), a strong…
helfen
It is inherited from Middle High German helfen, inherited from Old High German helfan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”). The same strong…
her
It is inherited from Middle High German her, inherited from Old High German hera, formed with a suffix of direction from the pronominal stem Proto-Germanic *hi- (“this”), which points to the place…
Herbst
It is inherited from Middle High German herbest, inherited from Old High German herbist, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, inherited from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest; autumn”)…
Herr
It is inherited from Middle High German hērre, inherited from Old High German hērro, shortened from hēriro, the comparative of hēr (“old, venerable”), the modern hehr: properly “the older, the more…
herrschen
It is inherited from Middle High German hērschen, inherited from Old High German hērisōn, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hairisōn. The verb is formed to the adjective hehr, Old High German hēr…
Herz
It is inherited from Middle High German herze, inherited from Old High German herza, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”). The same word is Old…
heute
It is inherited from Middle High German hiute, inherited from Old High German hiutu, contracted from the instrumental phrase *hiu tagu (“on this day”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hiu dagu…
heutig
It is inherited from Middle High German hiutec, inherited from Old High German hiutīg, an adjective formed with the suffix -īg (modern -ig) from the adverb hiutu (“today”), modern heute. The adverb…
hier
It is inherited from Middle High German hier beside the usual hie, inherited from Old High German hiar, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r (“here”). The same word is Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐍂 (hēr), Old Norse…
Hilfe
It is inherited from Middle High German hilfe (also helfe), inherited from Old High German hilfa (also helfa), inherited from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), an action noun from the strong verb…
hin
It is inherited from Middle High German hin (also hine), inherited from Old High German hina, an adverb formed with an n-suffix from the pronoun stem Proto-Germanic *hi- (“this”), from…
hinaus
It is inherited from Middle High German hin ūz, inherited from Old High German hina ūz, a compound from Old High German hina (“away, thither”) + ūz (“out”), that is hin and aus. Middle High German…
hinter
It is inherited from Middle High German hinder, inherited from Old High German hintar, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind”). Kluge reconstructs the Germanic preposition as *henderan. The…
hoch
It is inherited from Middle High German hōch, inherited from Old High German hōh, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”). The same word is Gothic…
Hof
It is inherited from Middle High German hof, inherited from Old High German hof, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hufą. The same word is Old Saxon hof, Old Frisian hof (“court, yard”), Old English hof…
hoffen
It is inherited from Middle High German hoffen, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, recorded from the 12th century. The verb belonged at first to the northern West Germanic dialects: Middle…
Hoffnung
It is inherited from Middle High German hoffenunge, a derivative from Middle High German hoffen + -unge, the verb hoffen with the suffix -ung. The Grimms consider the rarer Middle High German…
Höhe
It is inherited from Middle High German hœhe, inherited from Old High German hōhī, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hauhī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hauhį̄ (“height”), an abstract noun…
holen
It is inherited from Middle High German holen or haln, inherited from Old High German holōn beside halōn, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *holōn. Kluge reconstructs West Germanic *hal-ō- with a…
hören
It is inherited from Middle High German hœren, inherited from Old High German hōren, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”). The same verb is Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hausjan), Old Norse heyra…
Hund
It is inherited from Middle High German hunt, inherited from Old High German hunt, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hund, inherited from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (“dog”). The same word is Gothic…
ich
It is inherited from Middle High German ich, inherited from Old High German ih, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *ik, inherited from Proto-Germanic *ek. The same pronoun is Gothic 𐌹𐌺 (ik), Old…
Ich
It is the pronoun ich “I”, used as a neuter noun. The pronoun is inherited from Middle High German ich, inherited from Old High German ih, inherited from Proto-Germanic *ek, the same word as Gothic…
ihm
It is inherited from Middle High German im, inherited from Old High German imu, the dative of the pronoun er, from the pronominal stem of Proto-Germanic *iz (“he”). The same form is Old Saxon imu…
ihn
It is inherited from Middle High German in, inherited from Old High German inan, the accusative of the pronoun er. The same form is Old Saxon ina and Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌰 (ina), while Old Norse, Old English…
in
1. The preposition is inherited from Middle High German in, inherited from Old High German in, inherited from Proto-Germanic *in, older *eni. The same word is Gothic 𐌹𐌽 (in), Old Norse í, Old…
innerhalb
It is inherited from Middle High German innerhalp, inherited from Old High German innerūnhalp, also ininhalb and innanhalb, literally “on the inner side”. The phrase joins an inflected form of the…
Insel
It is inherited from Middle High German insel, borrowed from Latin īnsula (“island”). The earlier form, Old High German īsila (9th century) and early īsele, rests on the Romance form without the…
inzwischen
It is inherited from Middle High German enzwischen, from the Old High German phrase in zwiskēn (“in the middle of two”), formed from German in + zwischen. The Old High German phrase was built on the…
ja
It is inherited from Middle High German jā, inherited from Old High German jā, inherited from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes”). The same word is Gothic 𐌾𐌰 (ja), Old Saxon ja, Old Frisian je, Old English…
Jahr
It is inherited from Middle High German jār, inherited from Old High German jār, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *jār, inherited from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). The same word is Gothic 𐌾𐌴𐍂…
jährig
It is inherited from Middle High German jærec, inherited from Old High German jārīg, an adjective formed from the noun that is now Jahr with the suffix -ig. That noun goes back to Proto-Germanic…
jährlich
It is inherited from Middle High German jærlich, inherited from Old High German jārlīh, from Old High German jār (“year”) + -līh. Old High German also had the adverb jārlīhhēn (“yearly”). The same…