HOW WORDS MOVE.
HOW MEANINGS MUTATE.

Proto-Germanic *kundiz develops into Old English gecynde through West Germanic history, including fronting conditioned by the following high segment and loss or reshaping of inherited endings; ge- is not treated as part of the reconstructed stem.

The reconstructed natural or native adjective continues as Old English natural, innate, native, fitting, proper, and birthright senses.

The lexical sequence kind of remains orthographically visible while frequent constructional use permits phonological reduction represented as kinda.

A compositional category phrase develops approximating, hedging, downtoning, and discourse-management functions.

Middle English kinrede loses the final weak syllable inherited from -ræden, while an intrusive d develops between n and r and becomes fixed in kindred. The edge preserves kindrede as a medieval variant without treating kind as a component.

The family, lineage, blood-relation, and kinship noun continues; attributive use produces the adjective for shared ancestry and later for related origin, nature, or character.

Middle English kinrede continues late Old English cynræden / cynrēde through normal replacement of Old English c and y spellings, reduction of the second element, and loss of inherited inflection; the d-bearing variant is later.

Old English kinship and kin-conditioned state develops the medieval family, lineage, blood-relations, nation, and collective-relatives field.

The first element of cyn-ræden is Old English cynn in compound form; the compound boundary does not assert a sound change from the whole word to cynn.

Kin, family, lineage, and people supplies the social relation whose condition or collective state the compound names.

The second element of cyn-ræden is the suffixal or affixoid use of Old English ræden; this component edge is morphological analysis, not a claim that the whole compound changed into the suffix.

A condition related to kin yields kinship and, through collective interpretation, family or related people.

Germanic *rēdan continues the lengthened variant and suffixed *rē-dh- formation printed by American Heritage; the edge is comparative, not directly observed.

The fit or arrangement formation supplies condition and counsel-related Germanic meanings.

The suffixed lengthened-grade form *rē-dh- is analyzed from variant *h₂reh₁-, itself related to the oldest *h₂erh₁- root form.

Fit together develops arrangement, condition, counsel, and confirmation-related derivatives.

Middle English hatrede / hatreden loses the final suffixal syllable while the reduced -red spelling and /rɪd/ pronunciation become fixed in modern English.

The medieval state or condition of hate continues as intense animosity, hostility, or extreme dislike; countable hatreds later names particular hostilities.

The first element of Middle English hate-rede is hate. This component edge is morphological analysis, not a claim that the whole compound changed into the bare noun.

Hate supplies the emotion or hostility whose condition the compound names.

The Germanic i-stem *hatiz- yields Old English hete; the exact intermediate West Germanic paradigm is not independently promoted here.

The Germanic hate, anger, enmity, and spite field continues in the Old English noun.

The second element of hate-rede is Middle English -rede / -reden; this is morphological decomposition, not whole-word sound change.

The condition or state suffix turns hate into the state or condition of hate.

Middle English -rede / -reden reduces Old English -ræden, including loss and variation of the final weak syllable and regular orthographic simplification.

The older condition, status, estimation, or rule element survives as a narrowing and increasingly fossilized condition-forming suffix.

Middle English haten continues Old English hatian with loss of the medial unstressed vowel and inherited infinitive reduction.

Treat as an enemy or persecute continues as hate; a pursuit sense is relevant to one deeper semantic hypothesis.

Old English hatian continues the reconstructed Germanic weak verb *hatōjan-, with the inherited stem and reduced inflection.

The Germanic hostile-disposition verb continues in Old English; pursuit or persecution may preserve a more concrete action sense.

The Germanic weak verb *hatōjan- is derived from the base of the hate noun *hatiz-.

A noun for hate or enmity supplies the related verb to hate or treat as an enemy.

Middle English hate continues into modern /heɪt/ through the Great Vowel Shift and regular loss of final inflectional material; noun and verb converge in one spelling.

The hostility and enmity field continues while the verb also develops strong-dislike, distaste, and polite-reluctance uses and the noun develops attributive public uses such as hate speech.

Regional Early New High German spellings converge on standard hetzen; inflection and pronunciation continue to develop while the lexical stem remains recognizable.

The inherited chase and incitement senses continue, while reflexive and intransitive hurry uses become prominent in modern German.

Middle High German hetzen and hatzen continue into Early New High German with regional vowel and spelling variation.

Driving dogs after quarry extends to urging, provoking, and setting people against other people.

Old English long vowel and inflectional endings pass through Middle English fend, feend, and feond forms into modern fiend.

The inherited enemy and foe noun develops or foregrounds evil-spirit and cruel-person senses in the English branch.

Middle High German long ī undergoes the later High German diphthongization represented by modern /aɪ̯/; noun capitalization and final spelling standardize as Feind.

The inherited enemy or adversary noun remains available for personal, collective, military, and ideological opposition.

Old High German fīant, fījant, or fīand continues as Middle High German vīant, vīent, and vīnt through High German sound, spelling, and syllabic reduction; the sources preserve variant forms rather than one universal intermediate spelling.

The lexicalized enemy meaning continues through the attested High German record.

The 1996 German spelling reform writes ss after the short vowel in Hass where the pre-reform standard used ß. No pronunciation change is asserted.

The lexical meaning remains intense aversion or hostility; the edge models spelling standardization, not a new emotional category.

Middle High German haʒ continues through New High German hasz or Haß with capitalization of the noun and changing conventions for the final sibilant.

The modern hostile-disposition center becomes dominant while the older action, pursuit, anger-in-action, and friendly-rivalry uses recede or disappear.