The Germanic i-stem *hatiz- yields Old English hete; the exact intermediate West Germanic paradigm is not independently promoted here.
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hete
hate, hatred, spite, envy, malice, hostility, or anger
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedProto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic · hate anger germanic i stem*hatiz-
hate, anger, enmity, spite, or hostility
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The Germanic hate, anger, enmity, and spite field continues in the Old English noun.
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Hate — definition, etymology, and first known useNoun etymology: Germanic *hatiz- and Old English hete
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The shortest history of hatred continued and partly concludedGermanic cognate paragraph: Old English hete, Old High German haz, Old Saxon heti, Old Icelandic hatr
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HETE — An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary OnlineHETE entry, etymology section
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A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary — hete and related entriesLines 2968–2985, hete and compounds
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