New High German

English

Proper noun

New High German

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

Synonyms

German (in non-technical contexts)

Hyponyms

Early New High German

Coordinate terms

Old High German, Middle High German

Abbreviations

NHG, NHG., N.H.G., N. H. G.

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
Volynian German: Neihochdeitsch n

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)

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)

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