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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
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS

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RANK 31GRADE Acontext

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-

*ḱeh₂d- → *ḱh₂d-es- → *hatiz- → *xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan → hatan

p. 452, secondary Gothic analysis and participle-only corpus

Connects the two-token morphology to the competing historical explanation.

RANK 32GRADE Acontext

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-

*peh₁- → *fi(j)ēn- → fijan

pp. 451–452, fijan : fian and the association with hatan

Adds the historical form analysis without flattening the token boundary.

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opensupportsprobable

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 : fian

Publishes the historical formal analysis.

opencontextprobable

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 hatan

Uses overlap in a morphological argument without proving universal synonymy.

opencontextprobable

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 argument

Treats semantic overlap as part of an analogical explanation without providing a complete synonym inventory.

openchallengesproposed

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 probable

Publishes a direct alternative to uncomplicated inheritance.

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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

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EDGE 1136challengesproposed

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.

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EDGE 1141supportsproposed

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.

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EDGE 1142contextprobable

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 : fian

Treats the Gothic j-less shapes as a historical formal development.

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EDGE 1145supportsprobable

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 : fian

Publishes the historical formal analysis.

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EDGE 1148contextprobable

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 hatan

Uses the overlap in a historical morphological argument without proving total synonymy.

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fijan

hatan

Gothic

the other class-III hate verb that trades translation roles with fijan in Luke

fijan

hatjan

Gothic

the class-I hate verb in the wider Gothic paradigm and analogy problem

fijan

frijōn

Gothic

the love verb discussed as a formal and semantic counterpart in the j-loss analysis

hatan

hatjan

Gothic

the class-I hate verb that Braune treats as fluctuation and Sturtevant uses in a secondary-Gothic account

hatan

fijan

Gothic

the other Gothic hate verb whose participle trades translation roles with hatan across Luke 1:71 and 6:27

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