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Hatred — definition and etymology
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins Publishers
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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Hatred is medieval—and its -red means neither red nor “more.”
Middle English assembled hate with a dying native element for a state or condition. The compound is younger than its parts; below the secure Germanic hate family, even the celebrated PIE root remains a qualified and semantically difficult proposal.
*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → hete → hate → hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn → hatred
Bracketed etymologyIndependently confirms hate plus the condition suffix.
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Was hatred already a whole word in Old English?
No reviewed source gives an Old English whole-word ancestor. The word is documented as a Middle English formation from hate plus -rede, with a 13th-century first-known-use horizon.
Bracketed etymologyIndependently identifies Middle English composition.
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hatred → hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn
Present-Day English → Middle English · historical continuation
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Anatoly Liberman
Bracketed etymology and modern definitionIndependently documents Middle English composition and present meaning.
hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn → hate
Middle English → Middle English · compound component
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Bracketed etymology: hate plus -redeIndependently segments the first component.
hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn → -rede / -reden
Middle English → Middle English · compound component
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Bracketed etymology: -rede, conditionIndependently identifies the component.
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