English Explanatory Dictionary

Upper German

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the shifts of Proto-Germanic *-pp-, *-mp- to -pf-, -mpf-.
adj
  1. of the Upper German dialects

Word forms

Upper German

Etymology

Calque of German Oberdeutsch, oberdeutsch

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