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CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 351

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One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.

openproposed

Did the noun hate directly continue Old English hete?

The inherited noun is part of the history, but the immediate path is disputed. American Heritage presents Middle English hate from Old English hete; Merriam-Webster says the Middle English noun was probably derived from haten and replaced hete.

WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 351

hatred

/ˈheɪtrɪd/ · noun

A Middle English formation built from hate plus the fossilized native condition suffix -rede / -reden, with a secure Germanic hate family but a semantically difficult and explicitly disputed deeper Indo-European proposal.

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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE

2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE

A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.

02 / EDITORIAL STATE

THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.

CONFIDENCE
proposed
STATUS
open
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
Two major historical dictionaries preserve materially different immediate analyses.
WHY NO RESOLUTION

The reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.