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OHG

OHG is the initialism of Old High German.

Meaning of Old High German

Proper noun

Old High German

  1. The early recorded form of the High German language, spoken from the 8th century to the 11th century.
    • Old Alemannic is a dialect of Old High German, which is traditionally divided into two main dialect groups: Old Upper German (Altoberdeutsch) and Old Franconian (Altfränkisch). Old Upper German comprises Old Alemannic (Altalemannisch) and Old Bavarian (Altbairisch) while Old Franconian consists of...2019, Javier Caro Reina, Central Catalan and Swabian: A study in the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages (series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, vol. 422...
    Synonyms:
    OHG, Old High Dutch

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Forms of OHG

alternative formOHG.

Questions about OHG

What is OHG the initialism of?
OHG is the initialism of Old High German.

Words near OHG in the dictionary

  1. ohel
  2. ohelo
  3. oheloberries
  4. oheloberry
  5. ohelos
  6. OHG
  7. OHG.
  8. Ohi
  9. ohia
  10. Ohiah
  11. Ohian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OHG (page history and authors); Old 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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