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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun High German from about 1000 to 1500.
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- proper noun An ancestor of the modern German language, and was spoken from 1050 to about 1500. Some linguists prefer to use 1350 as the end of the Middle High German period, calling the period from 1350 to 1750 Early New High German.
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- noun High German from 1100 to 1500
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The New York Times claims it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer, which seems to make some of sense for a thin soup, but the Oxford Companion to Food counters that it's a variation of the German "schinke", or ham, denoting a shin specifically: "so the archetypal skink is a soup made from shin of beef".
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I have decided to dedicate this post to the fine tradition of courtly-love poetry, Middle High German style.
Archive 2006-02-01 Heo 2006
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I have decided to dedicate this post to the fine tradition of courtly-love poetry, Middle High German style.
Minnesänger Mittwoch. Heo 2006
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Investigation and comparison, however, have had more healing effects here than in other cases; and since the acknowledgment of the fact that the very early Middle High German version of Henry the Glichezare, itself of the end of the twelfth century, is a translation from the French, there has not been much serious dispute about the order of the Reynard romances as we actually have them.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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The practice carried over into Middle High German and Dutch, where it developed a sarcastic edge and became generally derisive.
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