Wiktionary:Requested entries (Middle High German)

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a, A

• -ā (suffix; e.g. in neinā)
• â (as in scâf) = normalised ā
• abe, ab, ave, af - descendants from *ab
• ach
• aftern, inflected adjective form (Lexer s.v. after only has some examples with this inflected form). The word should be related to after (prep., adv.). Maybe it's similar to NHG hinter (prep.), hinten (adv.), hintere (adj., pos. or comp. - grammarians have different opinions on that), hinterste (adj., sup.), where the adjective is related to a preposition or adverb and just has two and not three degrees.
• ahse (“axle”)
• amer, amerinc, ämerinc "bunting (bird)", etymon for translingual Emberiza, genus of buntings, per “Embriza”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• aber, aver - etymons of German aber (“but; however; though”)
• anen
• ane, an - from Proto-Germanic *anô

b, B

• bërc - etymon of German Berg
• borte - etymon of German "Borte"

e, E

• -ec - etymon of -ig
• é = normalised ē /eː/ (long) as opposed to e and ë (both short). Example: gér (= normalised gēr (“spear”)) in "in der hende truch er einen gér." (Joseph Diemer (editor), Deutsche Gedichte des XI. und XII. Jahrhunderts, 1849, p. 208)
• e̊ = normalised ë /ɛ/ (open) as opposed to e /e/ (closed)? Example: te̊t as in "... also der bose rude te̊t." (Joseph Diemer (editor), Deutsche Gedichte des XI. und XII. Jahrhunderts, 1849, p. 214) - inflected form of tůn/tuͦn or normalised tuon, another form of normalised tët, with e̊ for normalised ë /ɛ/ (open) as oppsed to e /e/ (closed)?

f, F

• fuᵛr (or fu^vr) as in "si wurfen fuᵛr unde witi" (Joseph Diemer (editor), Deutsche Gedichte des XI. und XII. Jahrhunderts, 1849, p. 210)
• fvvͦrti as in "unde fvvͦrti sie in egypto allesamt." and fvvͦr as in "mit ȥorn er uf fvvͦr." (Joseph Diemer (editor), Deutsche Gedichte des XI. und XII. Jahrhunderts, 1849, p. 201 & 215) - in the first vvͦ could be normalised üe, and in the second?

g, G

• gehœre - hearing?
• gehœrde - hearing?
• gabilun, gampilŭn - see Old Norse gammr

h, H

• hāken — The etymon intermediate between the Old High German hāko, on the one hand, and the Czech hák and German Haken on the other; as far as I can tell, they all mean “hook”. The page already has Dutch, German, and Swedish entries, hence the blue link.
• hütte - etymon of German Hütte

i, I

• -ic - etymon of -ig
• -īn - with inflection

  Alternative forms: -inne, -in. E.g. küniginne, küneginne, künigin, künegin, künigīn, kunegīn (from künic, künec = king, NHG König) = queen, NHG Königin.

  (Related question: In earlier NHG some people used -in with plural -inen and not -in or -inn with plural -innen. Could -in with pl. -inen have a long vowel just like MHG -īn instead of being an ungood spelling?)

l, L

• lantlōs
• Luccelemburc (“Luxembourg”) - etymon for the English word Luxembourg
• līm (“glue”) - etymon of German Leim (“glue”)

o, O

• ô (as in tôt), ó = normalised ō
• oͮ (as in oͮge) = normalised ou

r, R

• ris (needs MHG) - rice?
  • rīs m = NHG Reis, NE rice; rīs n = NHG Reis, Zweig. There might also be a ris, riʒ, rist.
• riuse, riusche - fish trap?

s, S

• stat - etymon of German Stadt
• snarchen - etymon of German schnarchen
• slahten - slaughter
• schelme - see German Schelm
• smicke, smyncke - see German Schminke

t, T

• thrōn, trōn - throne?

u, U

• ů/uͦ (as in tůn/tuͦn) and also vͦ (as in gvͦt) = normalised uo
• usele, üsele (“ashes”) — cognate with Icelandic usli and Old English ysle

v, V

• versüenen / versuonen - reconcile?
• vlëcke - etymon of Polish flak

w, W

• ẘ/wͦ = normalised wo
• wacker - etymon of German wacker
• wart - southern German form of wort, means 1. word, 2. verb

  Around 1400 in southern German glossing a Latin grammar of Donatus there are: nam (nomen, noun), wart (verbum, verb), zuewart (adverbium, adverb), tailnemung (participium, participle), vorseczung (praepositio, praeposition), unterwerfung (interjectio, interjection). According to www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=gmh and www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php gmh stands for German from ca. 1050-1500. So this would be MHG, even though some linguists think that MHG ended ca. 1350.
  BTW: The Latin text contains oracionis and preposicio (as well as coniunctio) - are these Middle Latin spellings for orationis, praepositio? I'd guess with such spellings the Latin alternative forms section could become much longer similar to e.g. High German (e.g. Konjunktion with at least 4 obsolete forms) and Low German (because of the many different dialects and different ways of spelling). Possible alternative forms for praepositio could have: (a) æ, e or special e characters with an accent or the like instead of ae and (b) either t or c in the ending -tio (NHG and NE -tion, but ME often -cion). -80.133.103.100 21:31, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

• wanne - etymon of German Wanne

z, Z

• zesewe, zesewer - inflected adjective forms; nominative is given as (*?)zese or sometimes (*?)zesewe depending on the source