PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
Not in the surviving Gothic clause. Matthew 5:44 uses hatjandam for people who hate; Middle High German hetzen develops pursuit and hounding senses in a daughter branch. The formal comparison does not make every branch share every meaning.
/ˈhat.jan/ · Gothic class-I weak-verb lemma
A Gothic weak verb meaning hate, represented by exactly one verified corpus token: the present participle hatjandam in Matthew 5:44. Project Wulfila lemmatizes that token as class-I hatjan, while the parallel Luke 6:27 command uses class-III hatandans from hatan. Braune treats the two shapes as conjugational fluctuation; Orel and the current corpus keep distinct formations visible. The normalized infinitive, the written participle, and the reconstructed parent are therefore never collapsed.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Shows branch-specific glosses inside the formal comparison.
p. 203, Gothic hatjan “hate” and Middle High German hetzen “pursue”Anchors the Gothic branch meaning in its surviving context.
Matthew 5:44, hatjandam in the hate clauseDevelops an action-centered hypothesis while preserving uncertainty.
Germanic hate, pursuit, and persecution discussionThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.