PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. They belong to a disputed wider comparison. Middle Irish cais carries a striking love-and-hatred field, but that does not make German Liebe an ancestor or cognate of Hass.
/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
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.
Documents the proposed forms and semantic opacity.
Noun etymology: Middle Irish cais and Greek kēdos comparisonWarns against treating the love-and-hatred pairing as a solved origin.
Discussion of Irish cais and semantic skeleton keysKeeps the distinct German love-word ancestry visible.
Herkunft: Middle and Old High German Liebe lineageThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.