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historical dictionarymhdwb-hetzen
Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch — hetzen
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Thomas Plate · Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch team
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 28GRADE Asupports
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-
*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → *xatjanan → *hezzen → hetzen / hatzen → hetzen / hessen / hittzen → hetzen
hetzen, literal hunting definition and transferred examplesDocuments the hound-centered medieval action and transfer to people.
hetzen dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
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.
hetzen, literal and transferred sense structureCenters medieval hunting and documents human-target transfer.
resolvedcontextprobable
Are the chase, hurry, and incitement senses separate homonyms?
The reviewed dictionaries treat them as senses of one inherited verb. The semantic bridge from making quarry or people move under pressure to hurrying and inciting is historically plausible, though the dossier does not invent exact dates for every transition.
hetzen, sense structureDocuments medieval literal and transferred uses.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 1120supportsestablished
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
hetzen, sense 1 and transferred human-target examplesDefines the literal hunting construction and its medieval human transfer.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
hetzenSOURCE-REPORTED
hetzen / hatzen
Reinhart Fuchs record reported by MHDWB
OPEN WITNESS 243 ↗hetzenSOURCE-REPORTED
hetzen / hatzen
Der Renner record reported by MHDWB
OPEN WITNESS 244 ↗050
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 3supports
Middle High German textual landscape
Documents the Middle High German hunting and human-incitement record.
hetzen, sense 1 and examples · broad070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
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