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

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Is the Old High German form directly attested?

Unresolved in the located sources. Bailey prints *hezzen with an asterisk and reconstructs it from Middle High German and cognates, while Duden and the older Kluge entry refer to an Old High German hetzen without visibly marking the form as hypothetical.

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hetzen

/ˈhɛt͡sn̩/ · German weak verb

A German weak verb whose modern senses range from driving or hunting quarry, through hurrying, to inciting hostility. The medieval record centers on setting dogs after game and already extends the action to turning people against one another. Comparative sources connect the verb with Old English hettan and Gothic hatjan, but the Old High German bridge and the exact prehistoric formation remain editorially disputed.

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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE

3 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
probable
STATUS
open
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
The sources expose different evidential presentation rather than a shared located OHG witness.
WHY NO RESOLUTION

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

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