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etymological dictionarydwds-hass-pfeifer

DWDS — Hass, etymology after Wolfgang Pfeifer

AUTHOR / EDITOR: Wolfgang Pfeifer · DWDS editorial team
YEAR: 2026
PUBLISHER: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
DOI: Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE: etymological dictionary
EXTERNAL RECORD: OPEN ORIGINAL ↗

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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS

RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

RANK 49GRADE Achallenges

The token is attested even though the dictionary headword wears an asterisk.

Köbler heads the Old Saxon noun hėti* but lists written accusative and dative heti plus genitive hetias beneath it. The exact Munich Heliand token is directly visible in the clause rîkioro manno heti endi harmquidi. The dictionary count three also hides a second distinction: it means three lexical loci, while Heliand 1322 survives with M, C, and V readings, producing five reported witness readings across the dossier. The star therefore belongs to an editorial headword layer; it does not erase the attested surface or turn Old Saxon into Proto-Germanic. The visible Heliand context is endured hostility or persecution, while the Saxon Confession groups hetias with malice, envy, and slander. Even the inherited grammar stays open: Fulk and Köbler use an i-stem analysis, whereas Pfeifer calls the wider noun an old es/os-stem.

*ḱeh₂d-

*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → heti

Pfeifer etymology: Old Saxon heti and old es/os-stem

Preserves the competing inherited morphology account.

heti dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING

RANK 58GRADE A-context

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-

*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → haʒ → haʒ → Haß / hasz → Hass

Pfeifer etymology: historical hostility and cross-Germanic family

Anchors the historical form and inherited family independently.

Hass dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING

SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT

DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

opencontextproposed

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.

Pfeifer etymology: hostile disposition, resentment, enmity

Foregrounds the inherited hostility field without adopting one pursuit scene.

Hass dossier ↗dispute record ↗

openchallengesprobable

Is there one uncontested inherited stem-class analysis for the wider noun?

No. Fulk compares Old Saxon heti and Old English hete as i-stems and says Gothic hatis transferred to the a-stems; Pfeifer calls the wider noun an old es/os-stem.

Pfeifer etymology: old es/os-stem

Publishes the competing wider-family description.

heti dossier ↗dispute record ↗

openchallengesprobable

Is *hatiz- the one exact spoken Proto-Germanic parent?

It is the atlas's reviewed cross-source representation, not a recording. Köbler prints *hati-, *hatiz, Koch gives *hataz ~ *hatiz-, and Pfeifer's stem-class description differs.

Pfeifer etymology: old es/os-stem

Preserves a different morphological frame.

heti dossier ↗dispute record ↗

resolvedcontextestablished

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.

Pfeifer etymology: Old High German and Middle High German haʒ

Shows that the lexeme long predates the reform.

Hass dossier ↗dispute record ↗

resolvedsupportsestablished

Was German Hass borrowed from English hate?

No borrowing is established. German Hass continues Old High German haʒ; English hate continues an Old English noun-and-verb history. The branches meet at reconstructed Germanic material.

Pfeifer etymology: German, Old English, English, Dutch, Norse, Swedish, and Gothic forms

Shows collateral inheritance rather than borrowing.

Hass dossier ↗dispute record ↗

resolvedsupportsestablished

Is Hass categorically incapable of a plural?

No across history. DWDS marks current Hass as singular-only, while DWB calls historical plurals rare and quotes theological hasse and poetic die hasse.

Grammar: used only in the singular

Documents the current usage label.

Hass dossier ↗dispute record ↗

CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

EDGE 1174supportsestablished

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

Pfeifer etymology: Old High German and Middle High German haʒ

Independently connects the High German stages to the modern noun.

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EDGE 1175supportsestablished

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

Pfeifer etymology: eighth-century Old High German and Middle High German haʒ

Dates the older stage and supplies the continuation.

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EDGE 1176supportsprobable

haʒ → *hatiz-

Old High German → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

SOUND: Under the comparative analysis, Germanic t develops into the Old High German sibilant written ʒ through the High German consonant shift, while i-stem morphology and gender are remodeled in the High German branch.
MEANING: The inherited hate, anger, enmity, or hostility field continues as Old High German haʒ; competing sources disagree on whether pursuit, suffering, or hostile disposition best represents the earlier semantic center.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Wolfgang Pfeifer · Jacob Grimm · John T. Koch

Pfeifer etymology: cross-Germanic old es/os stem

Places Old High German haʒ beside Old Saxon, Dutch, English, Norse, Swedish, and Gothic forms.

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EDGE 1180contextprobable

hatr → *hatiz-

Old Norse → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

SOUND: The comparative analysis aligns Old Norse hatr and genitive hatrs with the Germanic *hatiz- noun after North Germanic loss or reduction of unstressed material and branch-specific inflection. The public sources establish the comparison more securely than one fully specified sound-law derivation.
MEANING: The inherited hate, anger, enmity, or spite field continues in Old Norse hatred, enmity, and spite. One proposed mockery or scorn context remains a qualified side sense rather than the ancestral center.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors · Richard Cleasby · Guðbrandur Vigfússon · John T. Koch

Pfeifer etymology: Old Norse hatr in the cross-Germanic noun family

Independently places hatr inside the inherited family.

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EDGE 1259challengesprobable

heti → *hatiz-

Old Saxon → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

SOUND: Old Saxon heti is directly compared with the reconstructed Germanic noun represented here as *hatiz-. The inherited h-t frame and i-stem comparison are published; no unattested West Germanic intermediate or falsely precise sound-change date is inserted.
MEANING: The Germanic hate, anger, enmity, and hostility field continues in an Old Saxon noun whose located contexts include endured persecution or hostile speech and confessed hostility. No one daughter context is promoted as the original meaning.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: R. D. Fulk · Gerhard Köbler · Wolfgang Pfeifer · Linguistics Research Center editors

Pfeifer etymology: Old Saxon heti and the wider noun as an old es/os-stem

Preserves a competing inherited stem-class description rather than forcing false agreement.

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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS