Luitgard Diesch
Luitgard is a German female name. Origin The name comes from Old High German and means "[female] guardian of the people" (German: ''Beschützerin des Volks''). This derives, in its older form, ''Liutgard'', from ''liut'' which means "people" (Modern German: ''Leute''), "member of a people",Entry ''LEUTE, pl. homines'' in Grimm: ''Deutsches Wörterbuch'' (onlinedwb.uni-trier.de. and ''gard'' which means "protection" or "guardianship", from which the German word ''Garten'' and the English word "garden" are also derived. Name day Its name day is 16 October, the same date as that of the Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen. Variants * Luitgart, Luitgardt, Lutgard, Lutgaarde, Lutgart, Liutgard, Liutgart, Liudgard Notable bearers of the name * Luitgard (Frankish queen), Luitgard (died 4 June 800), last of the five wives of Charlemagne * Liutgard of Beutelsbach, benefactress of Hirsau Abbey and sister of Conrad I of Württemberg * Liutgard of Saxony (died 885), wife of the King of Ea ...
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Old High German
Old High German (OHG; german: Althochdeutsch (Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 750 to 1050. There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High German is an umbrella term for the group of continental West Germanic dialects which underwent the set of consonantal changes called the Second Sound Shift. At the start of this period, the main dialect areas belonged to largely independent tribal kingdoms, but by 788 the conquests of Charlemagne had brought all OHG dialect areas into a single polity. The period also saw the development of a stable linguistic border between German and Gallo-Romance, later French. The surviving OHG texts were all written in monastic scriptoria and, as a result, the overwhelming majority of them are religious in nature or, when secular, belong to the Latinate literary culture of Christianity. The earliest written texts in Old High German, glosses and i ...
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