CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 516
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openprobable
Did the shift from persecution to feeling happen in one dated event?
No single event is established. DWB describes a contrast between hostile deeds and a more muted hostile disposition, while historical and modern examples show overlapping contextual ranges.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 516
hassen
[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.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
3 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
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm — hassen
Describes a semantic development without assigning one innovation date.
hassen, verb, transition from hostile deeds to hostile disposition- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Jacob Grimm · Wilhelm Grimm · DWDS editorial team
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
SOURCE 02contextcontemporary dictionary
Duden — hassen
Shows the modern outcome remains internally differentiated.
Current two-sense definition- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Dudenredaktion
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Cornelsen Verlag
SOURCE 03contexthistorical dictionary
Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch — haʒʒe, swv.
Documents contextual range inside the medieval record.
haʒʒe, swv.; varied Middle High German objects and constructions- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Georg Friedrich Benecke · Wilhelm Müller · Friedrich Zarncke
- YEAR
- 1854
- PUBLISHER
- Wörterbuchnetz · Trier Center for Digital Humanities
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The dictionaries support a semantic development but do not date one universal switch.
WHY NO RESOLUTIONThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.