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NODE / 1091attestedMiddle English

hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn

TRANSLITERATION hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn

hatred; the state or condition of hate

DATE
Middle English
SENSE
hate condition compound
FAMILY
Indo-European / West Germanic
CANONICAL KEY
node:2:hatrede-hatreden-hateredyn:attested:sense:hate-condition-compound

Merriam-Webster prints hatrede; historical records also preserve fuller -reden and -redyn forms. The graph exposes both compound components rather than treating the modern spelling as a simplex.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

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GO DEEPERcompound componentestablished
Middle English · Middle English · hate noun component

hate

hate, extreme anger, hostility, or the lexical base of hatrede

SOUND
The first element of Middle English hate-rede is hate. This component edge is morphological analysis, not a claim that the whole compound changed into the bare noun.
MEANING
Hate supplies the emotion or hostility whose condition the compound names.
CHRONOLOGY
A Middle English compound analysis.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
CONFIDENCE
established — Both dictionaries directly segment the word as hate plus -rede.
Hatred — definition, etymology, and first known usesupportsEtymology: hate plus -rede

Directly segments the first component.

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Hatred — definition and etymologysupportsBracketed etymology: hate plus -rede

Independently segments the first component.

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OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 1085 ↗
GO DEEPERcompound componentestablished
Middle English · Middle English · condition state suffix

-rede / -reden

a state, condition, quality, status, estimation, rule, or relation to X

SOUND
The second element of hate-rede is Middle English -rede / -reden; this is morphological decomposition, not whole-word sound change.
MEANING
The condition or state suffix turns hate into the state or condition of hate.
CHRONOLOGY
Middle English compound analysis.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott
CONFIDENCE
established — The dictionaries directly segment the word and Traugott places it in the X-RÆDEN schema.
Toward a constructional framework for research on language changecontextpp. 96–97: hatred as X-RÆDEN relic

Places the word inside the wider condition construction.

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Hatred — definition, etymology, and first known usesupportsEtymology: hate plus -rede

Directly segments the second component and defines it as state or quality.

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Hatred — definition and etymologysupportsBracketed etymology: -rede, condition

Independently identifies the component.

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OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 1091 ↗
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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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DESCENDANThistorical continuationestablished
Present-Day English · 13th century–today · intense animosity hostility

hatred

intense animosity, hostility, extreme dislike, or hostile resentment

SOUND
Middle English hatrede / hatreden loses the final suffixal syllable while the reduced -red spelling and /rɪd/ pronunciation become fixed in modern English.
MEANING
The medieval state or condition of hate continues as intense animosity, hostility, or extreme dislike; countable hatreds later names particular hostilities.
CHRONOLOGY
Middle English into modern English; the evidence does not license one year for final-syllable loss.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Anatoly Liberman
CONFIDENCE
established — The sources agree on the Middle English whole-word stage and the fossilized second component.
Hatred — definition, etymology, and first known usesupportsWord History: Middle English hatrede and 13th-century first known use

Documents the whole-word continuation and medieval horizon.

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Hatred — definition and etymologysupportsBracketed etymology and modern definition

Independently documents Middle English composition and present meaning.

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The shortest history of hatred: Part 1contextFinal paragraph: -red “condition” and hatred displacing Middle English hete

Explains the fossilized suffix and lexical competition.

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OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 1084 ↗
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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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REVIEWED EDGES
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hatred1 connected node
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01historical continuationestablished
Middle Englishhatrede / hatreden / hateredyn→Present-Day English · 13th century–todayhatredintense animosity, hostility, extreme dislike, or hostile resentment
SOUND
Middle English hatrede / hatreden loses the final suffixal syllable while the reduced -red spelling and /rɪd/ pronunciation become fixed in modern English.
MEANING
The medieval state or condition of hate continues as intense animosity, hostility, or extreme dislike; countable hatreds later names particular hostilities.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Anatoly Liberman3 CITATIONSEDGE 1084 ↗
Hatred — definition, etymology, and first known use · Word History: Middle English hatrede and 13th-century first known use ↗Hatred — definition and etymology · Bracketed etymology and modern definition ↗The shortest history of hatred: Part 1 · Final paragraph: -red “condition” and hatred displacing Middle English hete ↗

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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02hatredhatrede / hatreden / hateredyn · established