PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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Yes in the reviewed historical accounts. Duden says the old forms also meant pursue; DWB labels hostile pursuit or persecution the original sense and cites Old and Middle High German alignments.
[ˈhasn̩] · German weak verb
The modern German weak verb for feeling hatred toward a person or for strongly disliking a thing or action. Duden traces it through Middle High German haʒʒen and Old High German haʒʒēn / haʒʒōn and adds that the older verb also meant pursue. Grimm’s DWB makes the semantic contrast explicit: it calls hostile pursuit or persecution the original sense and then describes a later, more muted center in hostile disposition rather than hostile deeds. BMZ and Lexer independently document the Middle High German verb and its literary record. The reviewed ancestry follows the reconstructed Germanic weak-verb alternatives into the *hatiz- family, preserves the qualified *ḱh₂d-es- / *ḱeh₂d- proposal, and then stops.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Calls hostile pursuit or persecution original and contrasts later hostile disposition.
hassen, verb, sense 1 and transition to sense 2Independently preserves the historical action sense.
Herkunft: formerly also pursueThe claim remains source-attributed and does not convert every historical token into persecution.