OLD HIGH GERMAN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Old High German

... been developed, or called into existence, but because it has ceased to exist. In the Latin of the Augustan age as compared with that of the early Republic, we find the s of words like arbos changed into r (arbor). The old High German, also, and the Icelandic, as compared with the Meso-Gothic, does the same. Still the change only affects certain inflectional sy1lables, so that the original s being only partially displaced, retains its place in the language, although it occurs in fewer words. In Australian, where ...

— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray