*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 716

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

*xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan

Proto-Germanic linguistic horizon

hatan DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Orel’s Gothic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Old High German comparison supports a Germanic verb family, while the exact reconstruction and the possibility of specifically Gothic remodeling remain disputed.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
uncertain
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not an attested word date or archaeological point.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    A Handbook of Germanic Etymology — *xataz, *xatjanan, and *xatōjanan

    Publishes the comparative Germanic verb family.

    p. 203, *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan and Germanic cognate setAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. challenges

    Notes on Gothic Forms — Hatan : hatjan “to hate”

    Preserves the competing account instead of turning the reconstructed horizon into certainty.

    p. 452, secondary specifically Gothic origin judged more probableAUDIT SOURCE ↗