CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 502
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Was Old Norse hatr borrowed from English hate or German Hass?
No such borrowing is established. The historical dictionaries list collateral Germanic forms, and Koch connects them through a reconstructed Germanic noun.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 502
hatr
/ˈhɑtr/ · Old Norse noun, chiefly neuter
An Old Norse noun for hatred, enmity, or spite. The University of Copenhagen Dictionary of Old Norse Prose gives the main neuter entry 54 citations, while a separately analyzed masculine entry has only one citation and is flagged as possibly an elementary error. The neuter corpus also contains one cautiously proposed mockery or scorn sense aligned with Latin irrisio. A c.1150-1200 manuscript visibly preserves Hatr in a line ONP transcribes Hatr hafa þeir engla and aligns with Latin Odium. The reviewed ancestry joins the Germanic *hatiz- family, preserves the disputed *ḱh₂d-es- and *ḱeh₂d- comparison, and then stops.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 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.
SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
An Icelandic-English Dictionary — hatr
Shows collateral branch forms rather than a modern borrowing path.
Entry hatr, comparison with Gothic, Old English, English, German, Danish, and Swedish- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Richard Cleasby · Guðbrandur Vigfússon · Sampo Silvennoinen digital edition
- YEAR
- 1874
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford Clarendon Press · digital public-domain edition
SOURCE 02contextresearch monograph
Celto-Germanic — HATRED *kad-
Publishes the inherited comparative analysis.
p. 101, Proto-Germanic noun and Old Norse hatr- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- John T. Koch
- YEAR
- 2020
- PUBLISHER
- University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- Independent branch forms and comparative reconstruction support inheritance rather than a modern-language donor.
RESOLUTION NOTEThe graph joins the dossiers at *hatiz- and draws no English-to-Norse or German-to-Norse arrow.