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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
German masculine nouncontrarian claim
Hass
The modern German noun for intense aversion, rejection, or hostility toward a person, group, or institution. Duden traces Middle and Old High German haʒ to suffering, sorrow, and resentment and records the 1996 spelling change from Haß to Hass. DWDS/Pfeifer reports the Old High German noun from the eighth century and places it in the Germanic family of Old Saxon heti, Old English hete, Old Norse hatr, Gothic hatis, and related forms. Grimm’s DWB preserves a more complicated semantic record: hostile pursuit or action, anger expressed in deeds, ordinary hostile disposition, and even measured rivalry during friendly competition. The reviewed route reuses *hatiz- and the qualified *ḱh₂d-es- / *ḱeh₂d- comparison, then stops.
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hate
An inherited Germanic hostility word whose English noun and verb histories converge imperfectly: Old English preserves both hete and hatian, Middle English may have remodeled the noun from the verb, and the proposed deeper Indo-European family remains semantically opaque.
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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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rich
Having wealth, abundance, value, or intensity; continuing a medieval convergence of English and French forms from a Germanic power word.
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German / Indo-European
Hass
intense aversion, rejection, or hostility toward a person, group, or institution
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- current German standard spelling since 1996
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- gloss
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
hate
as a noun, intense hostility, aversion, or an object of hostility; as a verb, feel enmity or strong aversion
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- before the 12th century–today
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- gloss
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
hatred
intense animosity, hostility, extreme dislike, or hostile resentment
- DATE
- 13th century–today
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 1
Present-Day English / Indo-European
rich
wealthy, abundant, valuable, or intense
- DATE
- before 12th century–today
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- gloss
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- 1
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
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Has Hass always meant only intense inner aversion?
No. Modern Duden centers intense aversion and hostility, but DWB reports Middle High German hostile action, anger expressed in deeds, pursuit, and measured rivalry beside the familiar disposition sense.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does -red historically make hate more intense?
No evidence reviewed identifies -red as an intensifier. It named a state or condition. Modern hatred can denote extreme animosity, but that lexical intensity is not the historical function of the suffix.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 58GRADE A-ranked reveal
Medieval Hass could be friendly competition.
Grimm’s DWB quotes Erec 2059: riders pursue a hawking contest, friuntlîchen striten, and share a bescheiden haʒ. The dictionary interprets this as rivalry in pursuing a goal. Modern Duden instead centers intense aversion and hostility. The contrast reveals a real historical side meaning without claiming that every medieval use was friendly or that Liebe and Hass share ancestry.
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