German words from Old High German
623 German words with Old High German in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 2).
bilden
It is inherited from Middle High German bilden, inherited from Old High German bilidōn (“to copy a given shape”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *biliþōn, with which the older Old High German…
bitten
It is inherited from Middle High German bitten, inherited from Old High German bitten (“to ask, beg, pray”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to…
bleiben
It is inherited from Middle High German belīben, inherited from Old High German bilīban, inherited from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną (“to remain”), a verb formed with the prefix *bi- on a simple strong…
Blick
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…
Boden
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…
brauchen
It is inherited from Middle High German brūchen, inherited from Old High German brūhhan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to use, enjoy”). The…
brechen
It is inherited from Middle High German brëchen, inherited from Old High German brehhan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). The same strong verb is Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan), Old…
breit
It is inherited from Middle High German breit, inherited from Old High German breit, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *braid, inherited from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad, wide”). The same word…
Brief
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”)…
bringen
It is inherited from Middle High German bringen, inherited from Old High German bringan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”). The same…
Bruder
It is inherited from Middle High German bruoder, inherited from Old High German bruoder, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *brōþer, inherited from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr (“brother”). The same word…
Buch
It is inherited from Middle High German buoch, inherited from Old High German buoh, inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōks. The same word is Old Saxon bōk, Old English bōc, Old Frisian bōk, Old Norse…
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…
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”)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
elf
It is inherited from Middle High German einlif, later eilf, inherited from Old High German einlif, inherited from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“eleven”), a compound of Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”) and…
Eltern
It is inherited from Middle High German eltern, inherited from Old High German eltiron, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *aldizōn-, the plural of the comparative of alt used as a noun: “the older…
Ende
It is inherited from Middle High German ende, inherited from Old High German enti, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *andī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”). The same word is Gothic…