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Duden — Hass
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Dudenredaktion
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Cornelsen Verlag
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- contemporary dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
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.
*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → haʒ → haʒ → Haß / hasz → Hass
MeaningProvides the modern intense-aversion contrast.
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Was the original meaning hostile pursuit or suffering and sorrow?
Unresolved. DWB argues for hostile pursuit or persecution as the original center; Duden glosses the origin as suffering, sorrow, and resentment; DWDS foregrounds hostile disposition, resentment, and enmity.
Herkunft: originally suffering, sorrow, resentmentPublishes a different semantic origin gloss.
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.
MeaningCenters current Hass on intense aversion, rejection, and hostility.
Did the 1996 reform create the word Hass?
No. Duden reports a spelling change; the noun continues Old and Middle High German haʒ and centuries of New High German Haß or hasz.
Did you know?: spelling changed in 1996Identifies the event as spelling reform.
Are Haß and Hass different etymological words?
No. They are standard-spelling stages of the same noun. Duden explicitly flags the 1996 spelling change without a semantic or pronunciation split.
Current spelling and 1996 spelling-change noteTreats Hass as the current spelling of the inherited noun.
Does modern Hass require a hostile action?
No. Duden defines a strong feeling of rejection or hostility; DWB says New High German ordinarily preserves hostile disposition. Action-centered uses matter historically without becoming a requirement for every modern token.
MeaningDefines current Hass as a feeling of intense aversion and hostility.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Hass → Haß / hasz
German → German · orthographic standardization
- SOUND
- The 1996 German spelling reform writes ss after the short vowel in Hass where the pre-reform standard used ß. No pronunciation change is asserted.
- MEANING
- The lexical meaning remains intense aversion or hostility; the edge models spelling standardization, not a new emotional category.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Dudenredaktion
Current headword, meaning, and Did you know?: spelling changed in 1996Directly dates the standard spelling change and shows that current Hass remains the same pronounced and defined noun.
Haß / hasz → haʒ
German → Middle High German · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Middle High German haʒ continues through New High German hasz or Haß with capitalization of the noun and changing conventions for the final sibilant.
- MEANING
- The modern hostile-disposition center becomes dominant while the older action, pursuit, anger-in-action, and friendly-rivalry uses recede or disappear.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Dudenredaktion · Wolfgang Pfeifer · Jacob Grimm
Herkunft: Middle High German and Old High German haʒPublishes the historical form behind modern Hass.
haʒ → haʒ
Middle High German → Old High German · historical continuation
- SOUND
- The reviewed dictionaries print the Old and Middle High German noun as haʒ; this edge preserves two attested language periods without inventing a sound change between identical normalized forms.
- MEANING
- DWB says hostile disposition is exclusively attested in Old High German, while Middle High German records also expose hostile action, anger enacted, and rivalry. That is a difference in the surviving record, not proof of one instantaneous innovation.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Dudenredaktion · Wolfgang Pfeifer · Jacob Grimm
HerkunftPrints the same haʒ form for both Old and Middle High German.
LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
Hass
Love turning into hate
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Old High German textual world
Independently identifies the historical stage.
Herkunft: Old High German haʒ · broadNew High German textual continuum
Defines the endpoint of the pre-reform standard spelling.
Did you know?: spelling changed in 1996 · broadGerman orthographic standard
Directly dates the orthographic standardization.
Did you know?: spelling changed in 1996 · broadModern German-language continuum
Documents intense aversion and hostility in current German.
Meaning and examples · globalNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
LOVE CAN TURN INTO HATE WITHOUT SHARING A ROOT
Duden’s example ihre Liebe schlug in Hass um and DWB’s repeated love-versus-hate contrasts make the German words semantic opposites inside attested usage. Their reviewed ancestries remain distinct: Liebe follows the *leubīn branch of the desire-and-care family, while Hass follows the Germanic *hatiz- family. This is an attested opposition, not a lexical parent edge.
Dudenredaktion · Jacob Grimm · Rosemarie Lühr · establishedWORD-FAMILY REUSE
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