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English
Proper noun
Early New High German
- The form of the German language spoken from 1350 or 1500 to 1650 CE, successor to Middle High German.
- 2008, Kjartan Ottosson, The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system: Evidence from person-number inflection in the Nordic languages and German, in: Thórhallur Eythórsson (ed.), Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers (John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia), p. 329ff., here p. 352 *:
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Middle High German c1050–1350 nëment
Transition period c1350–1500 nemen / nement
Early New High German c1500–1650 nemen
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* More properly it's thus:
Table 13. -n generalised to PRES. IND. of the 3rd PL.
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PRES. IND. |
PRES. SUBJ. |
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Old High German c750–1050 |
nëment |
nëmên
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Middle High German c1050–1350 |
nëment / nëmen |
nëmen
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Transition period c1350–1500 |
nemen / nement |
nemen
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Early New High German c1500–1650 |
nemen |
nemen
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