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Notes on Gothic Forms — Hatan : hatjan “to hate”
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Albert Morey Sturtevant
- YEAR
- 1954
- PUBLISHER
- Language · Linguistic Society of America · Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.2307/410465
- SOURCE TYPE
- research article
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Gothic’s two hate verbs trade places across two passages.
The complete surviving hatan corpus contains only hatandane in Luke 1:71 and hatandans in Luke 6:27. In Luke 1, fijandam supplies enemies while hatandane supplies those hating; in Luke 6, hatandans supplies enemies while fijandam supplies those hating. Both Codex Argenteus pages are directly inspected. The lexical swap—and the class-III versus class-I dispute—cannot be represented by one timeless translation arrow.
*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan → hatan
p. 452, secondary Gothic analysis and participle-only corpusConnects the two-token morphology to the competing historical explanation.
Enemy is a fossilized hater—but 21 Gothic tokens still refuse to choose.
Project Wulfila lists 42 candidates under fijan and 26 under the enemy noun fijands. Their intersection is exactly 21 surface tokens. Ayora Estevan explains the collision: *fi(j)and- had lexicalized as enemy before Gothic, while Gothic still possessed the productive present participle one who hates. Case and syntax resolve some passages; the remaining 21 stay public as noun-versus-participle ambiguity.
*peh₁- → *fi(j)ēn- → fijan
pp. 451–452, fijan : fian and the association with hatanAdds the historical form analysis without flattening the token boundary.
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Are fijan and fian separate Gothic verbs?
No separate lexeme is supported, but the formal history remains analytical. Project Wulfila redirects fian to fijan, Streitberg groups j-bearing and j-less forms, and Sturtevant discusses loss of j in the sequence.
pp. 451–452, loss of j in fijan : fianPublishes the historical formal analysis.
Are fijan and hatan perfect synonyms?
They overlap, but the surviving corpus does not prove identity. In Luke 1 fijandam supplies enemies and hatandane those hating; in Luke 6 hatandans supplies enemies and fijandam those hating. Sturtevant uses their association in a formal argument without proving interchangeable semantics everywhere.
p. 452, semantic association of fijan and hatanUses overlap in a morphological argument without proving universal synonymy.
Are hatan and hatjan two Gothic verbs or one fluctuating paradigm?
The sources preserve different analytical levels. Project Wulfila gives separate class-III and class-I lemmas; Orel publishes distinct comparative formations. Braune says hatan fluctuates with class-I hatjan, while Sturtevant proposes a specifically Gothic secondary explanation.
p. 452, Hatan : hatjan “to hate”Develops a specifically Gothic secondary account.
Are hatan and fijan perfect synonyms?
They overlap in the Gothic hate field, but the surviving passages do not prove total synonymy. Luke 1 uses fijandam for enemies and hatandane for those hating; Luke 6 reverses those constructional roles. Sturtevant treats semantic association as relevant to formal association, not as proof that every sense and construction was identical.
p. 452, semantic association of fijan and hatan in the formal argumentTreats semantic overlap as part of an analogical explanation without providing a complete synonym inventory.
Was hatan inherited unchanged from Proto-Germanic?
Possibly, not securely. Orel publishes *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan behind a Germanic cognate set. Sturtevant instead judges a specifically Gothic secondary origin more probable, and Braune records fluctuation with hatjan.
p. 452, specifically Gothic secondary origin judged more probablePublishes a direct alternative to uncomplicated inheritance.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
hatan → *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan
Gothic → Proto-Germanic · competing inheritance
- SOUND
- On the inherited analysis, Gothic h and the hat- stem continue the Germanic forms Orel writes with x, while the Gothic class-III paradigm is compared with the reconstructed *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan alternation.
- MEANING
- The Germanic weak-verb family meaning hate continues in the two surviving Gothic participles, one of which is substantivized as enemies.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Vladimir Orel · Project Wulfila editors
p. 452, Hatan : hatjan “to hate”Argues that a specifically Gothic secondary origin is more probable and notes that hatan occurs only in the present participle.
hatan → hatjan
Gothic → Gothic · analogical influence
- SOUND
- Sturtevant analyzes hatan beside hatjan through a specifically Gothic secondary association with the fijan/fian pattern; Braune independently records fluctuation between class III and class I.
- MEANING
- The two Gothic hate paradigms overlap semantically and morphologically without proving that every construction or sense was identical.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Albert Morey Sturtevant · Wilhelm Braune
p. 452, Hatan : hatjan “to hate”Publishes the specifically Gothic secondary explanation and its two-participle corpus basis.
fijan → *fi(j)ēn-
Gothic → Proto-Germanic · inheritance
- SOUND
- Gothic fijan continues the Germanic fi(j)- stem and class-III weak-verb formation. Written Gothic alternates j-bearing forms such as fijan and fijaiþ with j-less fiaiþ, fiais, fiandans, and fiands.
- MEANING
- The reconstructed Germanic hate verb continues as a Gothic experience verb taking the hated stimulus as an accusative object; lexicalized enemy formations remain a separate branch.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Guus Kroonen · Daniel Ayora Estevan · Project Wulfila editors
pp. 451–452, loss of j in fijan : fianTreats the Gothic j-less shapes as a historical formal development.
fian → fijan
Gothic → Gothic · orthographic variant
- SOUND
- Written Gothic loses j in some fijan forms before a vowel; the historical lemma fian normalizes that j-less surface pattern.
- MEANING
- No lexical split is established: both shapes remain one hate verb.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Albert Morey Sturtevant · Project Wulfila editors
pp. 451–452, loss of j in fijan : fianPublishes the historical formal analysis.
fijan → hatan
Gothic → Gothic · translation overlap
- SOUND
- No sound descent is claimed. The edge records two distinct Gothic class-III verbs used in overlapping translation constructions.
- MEANING
- Across Luke 1:71 and 6:27, fijan and hatan exchange the roles enemies and those hating.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Project Wulfila editors · Albert Morey Sturtevant
p. 452, semantic association of fijan and hatanUses the overlap in a historical morphological argument without proving total synonymy.
LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
hatan
Gothicthe other class-III hate verb that trades translation roles with fijan in Luke
hatjan
Gothicthe class-I hate verb in the wider Gothic paradigm and analogy problem
frijōn
Gothicthe love verb discussed as a formal and semantic counterpart in the j-loss analysis
hatjan
Gothicthe class-I hate verb that Braune treats as fluctuation and Sturtevant uses in a secondary-Gothic account
fijan
Gothicthe other Gothic hate verb whose participle trades translation roles with hatan across Luke 1:71 and 6:27
GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Proto-Germanic linguistic horizon
Preserves the competing account instead of turning the reconstructed horizon into certainty.
p. 452, secondary specifically Gothic origin judged more probable · uncertainNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
WORD-FAMILY REUSE
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