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Über (German pronunciation: ⓘ, sometimes written uber / ˈ uː b ər / [1] in English-language publications) is a German language word meaning "over", "above" or "across". It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is a cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over, Swedish över and Icelandic yfir, among other Germanic languages; it is a distant cognate to the ...
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...
Logo in 2017 Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, first edition by Konrad Duden (1880). The Duden (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a dictionary of the Standard High German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and later by Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, which was merged into Cornelsen Verlag in 2022 and thus ceased to exist.
Middle High German(MHG; German: Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhdt., Mhd.)) is the term for the form of Germanspoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High Germanand into Early New High German. High Germanis defined as those varieties of German which were affected by the Second Sound Shift; the ...
In academia, a Festschrift ( German pronunciation: [ˈfɛst.ʃʁɪft] ⓘ; plural, Festschriften [ˈfɛst.ʃʁɪftn̩] ⓘ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the honoree's colleagues, former pupils ...
Moin, moi or mojn is a Low German, Frisian, High German (moin [moin] or Moin, [Moin]), Danish (mojn) (mòjn) greeting from East Frisia, Northern Germany, the eastern and northern Netherlands, Southern Jutland in Denmark and parts of Kashubia in northern Poland. It means "hello" and, in some places, "goodbye" too.
Deutsches Wörterbuch. The Deutsches Wörterbuch ( German: [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈvœʁtɐbuːx]; "The German Dictionary"), abbreviated DWB, is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language in existence. [1] [2] Encompassing modern High German vocabulary in use since 1450, it also includes loanwords adopted from other languages ...
The Germanic umlaut is a specific historical phenomenon of vowel-fronting in German and other Germanic languages, including English. English examples are 'man ~ men' and 'foot ~ feet' (from Proto-Germanic *fōts, pl. *fōtiz), but English orthography does not indicate this vowel change using the umlaut diacritic.