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 8).
Samstag
It is inherited from Middle High German sameztac, inherited from Old High German sambaztag, a compound whose first part was borrowed before the High German consonant shift, with tag (“day”) added to…
Schaden
It is inherited from Middle High German schade, inherited from Old High German scado (“harm, harmer”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skaþō, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skaþô (“damage”). The…
schaffen
It is inherited from Middle High German schaffen, inherited from Old High German skephen (“to create, make, shape”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, inherited from Proto-Germanic…
schauen
It is inherited from Middle High German schouwen, inherited from Old High German scouwōn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look”). The same West Germanic verb is Old Saxon skawon, Old…
scheinen
It is inherited from Middle High German schīnen, inherited from Old High German skīnan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”). The same verb…
Schilling
It is inherited from Middle High German schillinc, inherited from Old High German skilling, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. The same word is Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (skilliggs), Old Norse…
schlagen
It is inherited from Middle High German slahen, inherited from Old High German slahan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to strike”). The same word is Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (slahan), Old Norse slá…
schlecht
It is inherited from Middle High German sleht, inherited from Old High German sleht (“smooth, level, simple”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“smooth, level”). The same adjective is Gothic…
schließen
It is inherited from Middle High German slieʒen, inherited from Old High German sliozan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sleutan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (“to bolt, lock”). The…
Schloss
It is inherited from Middle High German sloȥ, inherited from Old High German slōz, sloz, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *slot (“bar, bolt”), a derivative of schließen. The same word is Dutch…
schnell
It is inherited from Middle High German snel, inherited from Old High German snel, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *snel, inherited from Proto-Germanic *snellaz (“active, bold, quick”). The same…
schon
It is inherited from Middle High German schōne (“beautifully, fittingly, completely”), inherited from Old High German scōno (“beautifully”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *skaunō, originally the…
schön
It is inherited from Middle High German schœne, inherited from Old High German scōni, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”). The same…
schreiben
It is inherited from Middle High German schrīben, inherited from Old High German scrīban, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *skrīban, borrowed from Latin scrībō (“to write”). The Latin verb first…
Schritt
It is inherited from Middle High German schrit, inherited from Old High German scrit, inherited from Proto-Germanic *skridiz (also reconstructed as *skriþiz), an i-stem noun made in ablaut to the…
Schule
It is inherited from Middle High German schuole, inherited from Old High German scuola, borrowed from Latin schola (“lecture, school”), borrowed in the sphere of the monasteries. The Old High German…
Schüler
It is inherited from Middle High German schuolære, inherited from Old High German scuolāri, an agent noun formed from Old High German scuola + -āri (the ancestor of Schule), probably under the…
schwarz
It is inherited from Middle High German swarz, inherited from Old High German swarz, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *swart, inherited from Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black”). The same word is Old…
schwer
It is inherited from Middle High German swære, inherited from Old High German swāri, also swār, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *swār, inherited from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”). The same…
sechs
It is inherited from Middle High German sehs, inherited from Old High German sehs, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sehs (“six”). The same numeral is Gothic…
See
It is inherited from Middle High German sê, inherited from Old High German sēo, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, inherited from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (“sea, lake”). The same word is…
sehen
It is inherited from Middle High German sëhen, inherited from Old High German sehan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną. The same word is Old Saxon…
sehr
It is inherited from Middle High German sēre, inherited from Old High German sēro (“painfully”), the adverb of the adjective Old High German sēr (“sad, painful”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic…
sein
1. The possessive is inherited from Middle High German sīn, inherited from Old High German sīn, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his own, one's own”)…
seit
It is inherited from Middle High German sīt, inherited from Old High German sīd, inherited from Proto-Germanic *seiþiz (“later”), an old comparative adverb whose ending was regularly lost in West…
Seite
It is inherited from Middle High German sīte, inherited from Old High German sīta, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank”). The same word is Old Saxon sīda, Old English sīde, Old Frisian…
selber
It is inherited from Middle High German sëlber, the strong nominative singular masculine of selp (“self, same”), fixed as an indeclinable form. This continues inherited from Old High German selb…
selten
It is inherited from Middle High German sëlten, inherited from Old High German seltan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *seldanā, inherited from Proto-Germanic *seldanē (“seldom”), formed from a…
setzen
It is inherited from Middle High German setzen, inherited from Old High German sezzen, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *satjaną (“to set, place”), the…
sich
It is inherited from Middle High German sich, inherited from Old High German sih, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sek. The same pronoun is Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌺 (sik), Old Norse sik, Old Frisian sik and Middle…
sicher
It is inherited from Middle High German sicher, inherited from Old High German sihhur, borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“free from care, safe”), probably through a form Vulgar Latin *sicūrus. The Latin…
Sicherheit
It is inherited from Middle High German sicherheit, inherited from Old High German sihhurheit, formed from German sicher + -heit. The adjective, sihhur in the 9th century, was borrowed from Vulgar…
sichern
It is inherited from Middle High German sichern, inherited from Old High German sihhurōn (“to justify, clear of a charge, vouch for”), formed from the adjective sihhur, the ancestor of sicher. A…
Sicht
It is inherited from Middle High German siht, inherited from Old High German siht (“sight, appearance”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), an abstract noun formed from the…
sie
It is inherited from Middle High German si, inherited from Old High German siu, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sī (“she”). The same form is Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si)…
Sie
It is the plural pronoun sie “they”, used as a form of address and written with a capital letter. That pronoun is inherited from Middle High German sie, inherited from Old High German sie (“they…
sieben
1. It is inherited from Middle High German siben, inherited from Old High German sibun, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”). The same word is…
Sieg
It is inherited from Middle High German sige, inherited from Old High German sigu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *segaz (“victory”). The same word is Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍃 (sigis), Old Norse sigr, Old…
singen
It is inherited from Middle High German singen, inherited from Old High German singan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), a strong…
sinken
It is inherited from Middle High German sinken, inherited from Old High German sinkan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”), a strong…
Sinn
It is inherited from Middle High German sin, inherited from Old High German sin, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sinn. The word is limited to German, Dutch and Frisian: Middle Low German sin…
sitzen
It is inherited from Middle High German sitzen, inherited from Old High German sizzen, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”). The same verb…
so
It is inherited from Middle High German sō, inherited from Old High German sō, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *swā, inherited from Proto-Germanic *swē (“as, like, so”). Kluge sets up *swǣ, and…
Sohn
It is inherited from Middle High German sun, inherited from Old High German sunu, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). The same word is Gothic…
solch
It is inherited from Middle High German solich, inherited from Old High German sulīh, inherited from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so shaped, such”). The same compound is Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (swaleiks)…
sollen
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…
Sommer
It is inherited from Middle High German sumer, inherited from Old High German sumar, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, inherited from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”). The same word is…
sondern
The conjunction is inherited from Middle High German sundern (“without; except; but”), recorded in Central German in the 14th century. It is originally the dative plural of the adjective sunder…
Sonntag
It is inherited from Middle High German sunnentac, inherited from Old High German sunnūntag, a Germanic loan translation from Latin diēs Sōlis (“day of the sun”), itself a translation of Ancient…
sonst
It is inherited from Middle High German sunst, older sus, inherited from Old High German sus (“so, thus”), and first meant “so”. The same word is Old Saxon sus, continued in Dutch zus. Beside it…
sorgen
It is inherited from Middle High German sorgen, inherited from Old High German sorgēn, inherited from Proto-Germanic *surgāną (“to worry”), a verb formed from the noun that is now Sorge. The same…
spät
It is inherited from Middle High German spæte, inherited from Old High German spāti, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *spādī, inherited from Proto-Germanic *spēdiz. Outside German it is found only…
Spiel
It is inherited from Middle High German spil, inherited from Old High German spil, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *spil (“dance”). The word is found only in continental West Germanic: Old Saxon…
spielen
It is inherited from Middle High German spiln, inherited from Old High German spilōn, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *spilōn (“to play, to dance”), a verb formed from the noun Proto-West…
Spieler
It is inherited from Middle High German spilære, inherited from Old High German spilāri (“drummer, dancer, actor, player”), a noun of agent from Old High German spil + -āri or from the verb spilōn…
Spitze
It is inherited from Middle High German spitze, inherited from Old High German spizza (“point, spike, summit”), a noun belonging to the adjective spitz (spizzi, spiz). Köbler sets up a noun…
Sprache
It is inherited from Middle High German sprāche, inherited from Old High German sprāhha, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”). Kluge reconstructs the West Germanic form as…
sprechen
It is inherited from Middle High German sprechen, inherited from Old High German sprehhan, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan. The same verb is Old Saxon sprekan, Old Frisian spreka and Old…
Sprecher
It is inherited from Middle High German sprechære, inherited from Old High German sprehhāri (“speaker, orator, preacher”), an agent noun of the verb sprehhan, the ancestor of sprechen. It replaced…
Spur
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…