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MHG

MHG is the initialism of Middle High German.

Meaning of Middle High German

Proper noun

Middle High German

  1. An ancestor to the modern (High) German language, 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 1650 Early New High German in a broad sense.

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Questions about MHG

What is MHG the initialism of?
MHG is the initialism of Middle High German.

Words near MHG in the dictionary

  1. mhelliahs
  2. MHET
  3. MHETase
  4. MHETases
  5. MHETs
  6. MHG
  7. MHH
  8. MHK
  9. MHKs
  10. MHL
  11. mhm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MHG (page history and authors); Middle High German (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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