New High German

English

Proper noun

New High German

1. The modern form of the German language, successor to Middle High German.

Synonyms

• German (in non-technical contexts)
• NHG, NHG., N.H.G., N. H. G. (abbreviations)

Hyponyms

• Early New High German

Coordinate terms

• Old High German, Middle High German

Translations

modern German language

• Danish: nyhøjtysk, tysk (da) (in non-technical contexts)
• French: haut-allemand moderne m
• Galician: alto alemán moderno m
• Georgian: ახალი ზემოგერმანული ენა (axali zemogermanuli ena), თანამედროვე გერმანული ენა (tanamedrove germanuli ena)
• German: Neuhochdeutsch (de) n

  Volhynian German: Neihochdeitsch n

• Hungarian: újfelnémet (hu)
• Irish: Nua-Ard-Ghearmáinis f
• Low German: Neehoochdüütsch n, Niehoochdüütsch n, Nieghoochdüütsch n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nyhøgtysk m, nyhøytysk m

  Nynorsk: nyhøgtysk m

• Swedish: nyhögtyska c, yngre nyhögtyska c

Adjective

New High German (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to New High German.
   • 1995, Ilse Middendorf, The Perceptible Breath: A Breathing Science (Preface); in: Don Hanlon Johnson (ed.), Bone, Breath & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment, page 75:

     The history of the New High German word Körper (corpus) starts with its Middle High German borrowing from the Latin word corpus, body flesh, corpse, shadow (of a dead person), trunk, belly, person, nature, and others, and leads over the years to the latest form.

Translations

of or relating to the modern German language

• Danish: nyhøjtysk, tysk (da) (in non-technical contexts)
• Georgian: ახალი ზემოგერმანული (axali zemogermanuli), თანამედროვე გერმანული (tanamedrove germanuli)
• German: neuhochdeutsch (de)
• Hungarian: újfelnémet (hu)