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START / NODE 1090Present-Day English13th century–today
hatred
A Middle English formation built from hate plus the fossilized native condition suffix -rede / -reden, with a secure Germanic hate family but a semantically difficult and explicitly disputed deeper Indo-European proposal.
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Present-Day Englishhatred
intense animosity, hostility, extreme dislike, or hostile resentment
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Middle English · Middle Englishhatrede / hatreden / hateredynhatred; the state or condition of hate
- SOUND CHANGE
- Middle English hatrede / hatreden loses the final suffixal syllable while the reduced -red spelling and /rɪd/ pronunciation become fixed in modern English.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The medieval state or condition of hate continues as intense animosity, hostility, or extreme dislike; countable hatreds later names particular hostilities.
- 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.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Middle English into modern English; the evidence does not license one year for final-syllable loss.
3 CITATIONSHatred — definition, etymology, and first known useWord History: Middle English hatrede and 13th-century first known use Hatred — definition and etymologyBracketed etymology and modern definition The shortest history of hatred: Part 1Final paragraph: -red “condition” and hatred displacing Middle English hete AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 1084 ↗
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