New High German

New High German

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

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

• Early New High German

• Old High German, Middle High German

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.