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4 source sections across 2 headwords matching “Emu”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.

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EmuEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text

From emu (“ratite”). Calque of Australian aboriginal languages name of the sky pattern, named after the giant bird of Australia, for which it appears akin to.

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emuEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

Probably from Portuguese ema (“(originally) cassowary; rhea bird”).

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emuEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text

From e(lectro)m(agnetic) u(nit).

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emuEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text

From Wiktionary contributors; extracted by Tatu Ylonen / Wiktextract / Kaikki.org. Extraction source · CC-BY-SA-4.0. Selected source text is reformatted for display; language and section identity are retained.

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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1

resolvedestablishedposition text

Could the Old High German verb express following or hostile pursuit?

Yes in the reviewed lexical reports. DWB aligns haʒôn with aemulari and hatamas and hatent with forms of insequi; Duden independently says the older verb also meant pursue.

CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1

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Old High German hazzōn is a paradigm fault line, not proof that hate originally meant pursue.

The clean dictionary headword conceals paired ēn and ōn forms: Starling reports hazzēn in the eighth century and hazzōn in the ninth, Duden prints haʒʒēn and haʒʒōn, and the UT reflex index also records hazēn and hazōn. Corpus-wide research confirms that Old High German ēn verbs can show ōn double forms. DWB reports aemulari and insequi alignments that support emulation, following, or hostile pursuit—but Pokorny’s comparative warning is exact: Germanic evidence does not prove that pursue was the root’s basic meaning. The normalized form, the source-reported tokens, the paradigm analysis, and the prehistoric semantic claim are four different evidence layers.

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