CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 652
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openproposed
Is hatia specifically East Old Frisian, West Old Frisian, or both?
The reviewed sources do not flatten the dialect evidence. Popkema marks hetia as West Lauwers, Corpus Oudfries places relevant records in West Old Frisian texts, while StarLing labels hatia East Frisian.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 652
hatia
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.
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
Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch — extracted entry hatia
Supplies one regional label.
Entry variants: hetia marked West Lauwers- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Dietrich Hofmann · Anne Tjerk Popkema
- YEAR
- 2008
- PUBLISHER
- Universitätsverlag Winter · extracted web presentation
SOURCE 02supportslexical corpus record
Corpus Oudfries — hatia in Jurisprudentia Frisica
Locates the Jurisprudentia Frisica records.
Metadata: West Lauwers and West Old Frisian- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Corpus Oudfries editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
SOURCE 03challengescomparative database
Proto-Germanic *xatiz, *xatōn-, -ēn- and *xatjan-
Supplies a materially different dialect assignment.
Comparative row labels hatia East Frisian- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- StarLing database editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- StarLing
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The references organize dialect labels and variants differently.
WHY NO RESOLUTIONThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.