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scornEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text

Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).

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Old Norse noun, chiefly neuterdossier summary

hatr

An Old Norse noun for hatred, enmity, or spite. The University of Copenhagen Dictionary of Old Norse Prose gives the main neuter entry 54 citations, while a separately analyzed masculine entry has only one citation and is flagged as possibly an elementary error. The neuter corpus also contains one cautiously proposed mockery or scorn sense aligned with Latin irrisio. A c.1150-1200 manuscript visibly preserves Hatr in a line ONP transcribes Hatr hafa þeir engla and aligns with Latin Odium. The reviewed ancestry joins the Germanic *hatiz- family, preserves the disputed *ḱh₂d-es- and *ḱeh₂d- comparison, and then stops.

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hatr

hatred, enmity, spite; perhaps mockery or scorn in one uncertain context

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Could hatr mean mockery or scorn?

Possibly in one context. ONP prints question marks before both the Danish and English glosses and compares Latin irrisio. One source-reported passage does not establish a broad independent sense.

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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose citation — proposed mockery or scorn sense of hatr

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2026

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hatr / hatr / c.1200-1225, source-reported

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose citation — proposed mockery or scorn sense of hatrreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗
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English prose works of Richard Rolle, selected edition

hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn / hatred / Middle English text, edition page 88

English prose works of Richard Rolle: a selectionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗
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