-umlaut with macron
[-ae] ae ligature with macron
[th] thorn
[dh] edh
[bh] b with line through stem
[zh] ezh
[ch] Greek letter chi
[ng] eng ("n" with curve below line)

Italics are marked with _lines_. Boldface type is shown with {braces}.
Boldface markings have generally been omitted from tables to aid
readability.

Punctuation in the Glossary has been silently regularized. Other
typographical errors are listed at the end of the text.]

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A

MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN
PRIMER

with
Grammar, Notes, And Glossary

by
JOSEPH WRIGHT
M.A., Ph.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.

Fellow of the British Academy
Corpus Christi Professor of Comparative Philology
in the University of Oxford

THIRD EDITION
Re-Written And Enlarged

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1917

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

London Edinburgh Glasgow New York
Toronto Melbourne Bombay

HUMPHREY MILFORD
Publisher to the University

EXTRACTS FROM THE PREFACES
TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS

The present book has been written in the hope that it will serve as an
elementary introduction to the larger German works on the subject from
which I have appropriated whatever seemed necessary for the purpose. In
the grammar much aid has been derived from Paul's _Mittelhochdeutsche
Grammatik_, second edition, Halle, 1884, and Weinhold's
_Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik_, second edition, Paderborn, 1883. The
former work, besides containing by far the most complete syntax, is also
the only Middle High German Grammar which is based on the present state
of German Philology.... I believe that the day is not far distant when
English students will take a much more lively interest in the study of
their own and the other Germanic languages (especially German and Old
Norse) than has hitherto been the case. And if this little book should
contribute anything towards furthering the cause, it will have amply
fulfilled its purpose.

LONDON: _January, 1888._

When I wrote the preface to the first edition of th