PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No single gloss exhausts the record. Orel glosses Old English hettan “hate” but Middle High German hetzen “pursue”; the attested enemy forms encode an antagonist, and Liberman argues for pursuit or persecution as an older concrete history.
/ˈhet.tɑn/ · Old English weak-verb lemma
An Old English weak-verb lemma supported by a strikingly narrow surface record. A full-corpus lemmatisation inventory lists only hettende under hettan; Bosworth–Toller redirects the bare headword to hettend, “enemy,” while Orel compares the verb with Gothic hatjan and Middle High German hetzen. Clark Hall instead assigns hettende to hatian. The dossier therefore separates the comparative verb, the recorded enemy word, and the unresolved lemma assignment.
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.
Prints hate for Gothic and Old English but pursue for Middle High German.
p. 203, *xatjanan entryDevelops the persecution and pursuit hypothesis while preserving uncertainty.
Old English hettan and German hetzen discussionDocuments the enemy or antagonist function of the recorded forms.
HETTEND entryThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.