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Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch — hetzen
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Oskar Reichmann et al.
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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German hostile agitation still carries a hound’s chase.
The medieval verb drives dogs after quarry. The same directed-force construction is soon applied to people: Middle High German records set people against one another, and Early New High German polemic sets rulers against Christians. Modern political hetzen is therefore not merely “hate” verbalized; it inherits a grammar of making another actor pursue, pressure, or attack.
*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → *xatjanan → *hezzen → hetzen / hatzen → hetzen / hessen / hittzen → hetzen
Luther, WA 47, 505, 1 (1537/40)Documents explicit human incitement in Early New High German.
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Did hetzen begin as a modern political hate-speech verb?
No. The Middle High German dictionary centers the verb on driving dogs to hunt and already records transferred human conflict; Early New High German sources later make incitement explicit.
Belegblock, senses 2–3Documents Early New High German incitement.
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hetzen → hetzen / hessen / hittzen
German → Early New High German · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Regional Early New High German spellings converge on standard hetzen; inflection and pronunciation continue to develop while the lexical stem remains recognizable.
- MEANING
- The inherited chase and incitement senses continue, while reflexive and intransitive hurry uses become prominent in modern German.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Dudenredaktion · Oskar Reichmann et al.
Sense groups 1–3 and cited Early New High German recordsDocuments historical hunting, pursuit, provocation, and incitement uses.
hetzen / hessen / hittzen → hetzen / hatzen
Early New High German → Middle High German · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Middle High German hetzen and hatzen continue into Early New High German with regional vowel and spelling variation.
- MEANING
- Driving dogs after quarry extends to urging, provoking, and setting people against other people.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Thomas Plate · Oskar Reichmann et al. · Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Belegblock, senses 2–3Documents Early New High German forms and transferred incitement.
LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
hetzen / hessen / hittzen
Luther record reported by FWB
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verhetzen
Germana prefixed relative associated with hostile incitement or setting against
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Early New High German legal and polemical record
Documents Early New High German incitement contexts.
Belegblock, senses 2–3 · broadNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
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