Middle High German hetzen and hatzen continue into Early New High German with regional vowel and spelling variation.
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hetzen / hessen / hittzen
hunt with dogs; drive; set people against one another
OPEN NODE 1129 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedMiddle High German · Middle High German · hound pursue middle high germanhetzen / hatzen
drive dogs to hunt; pursue; incite people against someone
OPEN NODE 1130 ↗01
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Driving dogs after quarry extends to urging, provoking, and setting people against other people.
Middle High German into Early New High German.
Thomas Plate · Oskar Reichmann et al. · Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
established — Historical dictionary records directly document both the hunting construction and transferred human targets.
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Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch — hetzenhetzen, sense 1 and transferred human-target examples
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Defines the literal hunting construction and its medieval human transfer.
Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch — hetzenBelegblock, senses 2–3
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents Early New High German forms and transferred incitement.
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch — hetzen, hessenhetzen, hessen, hunting senses I–II
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents fifteenth- and sixteenth-century hunting terminology.
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