CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 656
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openestablished
Can one exact Old Frisian pronunciation or vowel length be recovered?
No. Lexicographic forms include hatia, hetia, and hātia, but the reviewed sources do not provide audio or a complete dated phonetic transition series.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 656
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
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
Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch — extracted entry hatia
Supplies orthographic and quantity variation without recorded audio.
Variants hatia, hetia, hātia- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Dietrich Hofmann · Anne Tjerk Popkema
- YEAR
- 2008
- PUBLISHER
- Universitätsverlag Winter · extracted web presentation
SOURCE 02contexthistorical dictionary
Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, 4th edition — hatia
Supplies a second written analysis.
Headword and etymological forms- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Gerhard Köbler
- YEAR
- 2014
- PUBLISHER
- Gerhard Köbler
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The dictionaries publish spelling and quantity notation rather than a recorded historical voice.
WHY NO RESOLUTIONThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.