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Old High German is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. A set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Old High German.
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 ...
German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways articles, adjectives and sometimes nouns can change their form to reflect their role in the sentence: subject, object, etc. Declension allows speakers to mark a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead of ...
The split of the Class II weak verb ending *-ō-into *-ō-/-ōja-(cf. Old English -ian < -ōjan, but Old High German -ōn). Development of a plural ending *-ōs in a-stem nouns (note, Gothic also has -ōs , but this is an independent development, caused by terminal devoicing of *-ōz ; Old Frisian has -ar , which is thought to be a late ...
The reconstruction of grading paradigms in Proto-Germanic explains root alternations such as Old English steorra 'star' < *sterran-vs. Old Frisian stera 'id.' < * *steran-and Norwegian (dial.) guva 'to swing' < *gubōn-vs. Middle High German gupfen 'id.' < *guppōn-as generalizations of the original
Old High German declension; H. High German consonant shift; R. Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible This page was last edited on 25 February 2022, at 14:16 (UTC). Text is ...
The first comprehensive German dictionary developed on historical principles. Begun in 1838, first published in 1854, completed in 1961, supplemented 1971. Technologisches Wörterbuch of German, French and English and other languages by Johann Adam Beil, 1853. An early technical dictionary. Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache by Daniel Sanders ...
German declension; A. German articles; N. ... Old High German declension This page was last edited on 4 June 2013, at 12:21 (UTC). Text is available under the ...