PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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Possibly, but the immediate route is disputed. American Heritage gives direct noun descent; Merriam-Webster says the noun was probably derived from haten and replaced hete.
/heɪt/ · noun · verb
An inherited Germanic hostility word whose English noun and verb histories converge imperfectly: Old English preserves both hete and hatian, Middle English may have remodeled the noun from the verb, and the proposed deeper Indo-European family remains semantically opaque.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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States the remodeled-noun position.
Noun etymology: probably derivative of haten, replacing heteStates the direct-continuation position.
Noun etymology: from Old English heteThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.