Die Brokmer Rechtshandschriften — B 101 and critical note hatia = atia
Supplies the exact philological explanation.
B 101 critical note on prothetic atia- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- W. J. Buma
- YEAR
- 1949
- PUBLISHER
- Springer
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. In context it says that if the mother is so poor that she cannot otherwise feed or rear her children, she may take something from the wergeld.
not directly recoverable · Old Frisian weak verb
Old Frisian hatia is a weak verb whose lexicographic field extends beyond an inward feeling. Hofmann and Popkema give hate or reject, damage, and a feud-language expression for harming or pursuing someone as an enemy. A May 2026 Corpus Oudfries search for word or lemma hatia returns six records in 235,462 tokens, but those are not six instances of this verb. Buma's critical note on Brokmer B 101 explicitly identifies its written hatia as atia "rear" with prothetic h, and Nijdam translates the passage as a poor mother being unable to feed her children. That token is excluded from the hate lineage. The five relevant corpus records occur in legal, road, family, and theological contexts: forms hatijen, hatie, hata, and hatien can concern harming or hindering on a road, a writing or event going against someone, or God hating perjury, lying speech, and false witnesses. The current corpus count is a bounded research surface, not a frequency estimate for medieval speech or a claim about every surviving witness. The underlying manuscripts were not directly inspected for this dossier, no earliest-use claim is made, and no exact historical pronunciation is invented.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Supplies the exact philological explanation.
B 101 critical note on prothetic atiaSupplies the family-law meaning in context.
p. 256, B 101: cannot otherwise feed her childrenThe family-law context is not reverse-engineered into an emotional sense.