The reviewed dictionaries print the Old and Middle High German noun as haʒ; this edge preserves two attested language periods without inventing a sound change between identical normalized forms.
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haʒ
hostility, hostile pursuit or action, anger in action, or measured rivalry
OPEN NODE 1192 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedOld High German · Old High German, reported from the eighth century · hostile disposition old high germanhaʒ
hostile disposition, resentment, enmity, suffering, or sorrow
OPEN NODE 1193 ↗01
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DWB says hostile disposition is exclusively attested in Old High German, while Middle High German records also expose hostile action, anger enacted, and rivalry. That is a difference in the surviving record, not proof of one instantaneous innovation.
Old High German records from the eighth century into the Middle High German textual period.
Dudenredaktion · Wolfgang Pfeifer · Jacob Grimm
established — The historical stages are explicit. Semantic coverage reflects cited texts and may not exhaust spoken usage.
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SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
Duden — HassHerkunft
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Prints the same haʒ form for both Old and Middle High German.
DWDS — Hass, etymology after Wolfgang PfeiferPfeifer etymology: eighth-century Old High German and Middle High German haʒ
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Dates the older stage and supplies the continuation.
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm — hasz, m.hasz, m., historical-form paragraph and sections 1–2
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Separates the surviving Old High German semantic center from the wider Middle High German record.
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