PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
Possibly relevant, not established. Beowulf, hettan, German hetzen, and the action contexts motivate a pursuit or persecution proposal, but the deeper semantic comparison remains unresolved.
/ˈhɑ.ti.ɑn/ · Old English weak verb
An attested Old English verb for hating whose objects include persons, enemies, vices, and deeds. It continues a reconstructed Germanic weak verb commonly represented as *hatōjan-, but published reconstructions vary, its relationship to the noun base is derivational rather than direct word-to-word descent, and the proposed deeper Indo-European route remains semantically opaque.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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.
Develops the action-centered proposal and states its limits.
Old English hatian, Hati, hetzen, hettan, and pursuit conclusionDocuments enemy action and injury in the Beowulf passages.
Glossary entry hatianThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.