PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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Unresolved. DWB argues for hostile pursuit or persecution as the original center; Duden glosses the origin as suffering, sorrow, and resentment; DWDS foregrounds hostile disposition, resentment, and enmity.
/has/ · German masculine noun
The modern German noun for intense aversion, rejection, or hostility toward a person, group, or institution. Duden traces Middle and Old High German haʒ to suffering, sorrow, and resentment and records the 1996 spelling change from Haß to Hass. DWDS/Pfeifer reports the Old High German noun from the eighth century and places it in the Germanic family of Old Saxon heti, Old English hete, Old Norse hatr, Gothic hatis, and related forms. Grimm’s DWB preserves a more complicated semantic record: hostile pursuit or action, anger expressed in deeds, ordinary hostile disposition, and even measured rivalry during friendly competition. The reviewed route reuses *hatiz- and the qualified *ḱh₂d-es- / *ḱeh₂d- comparison, then stops.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Advances hostile pursuit or persecution as the original meaning.
hasz, m., opening paragraph and sense 1Publishes a different semantic origin gloss.
Herkunft: originally suffering, sorrow, resentmentForegrounds the inherited hostility field without adopting one pursuit scene.
Pfeifer etymology: hostile disposition, resentment, enmityThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.