Etymology

A simplex adj. corresponding to the stem of heterly, and perhaps back-derived therefrom (as MED suggests).

PGmc Ancestor

*xat-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

hatr 'hatred'; hatrliga ‘hatefully’
(ONP hatr (n.); hatrliga (adv.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far hatur, Icel hatur, Norw hat, Dan had, OSw hat

OE Cognate

hete (n.) 'hate, envy, malice, persecution, punishment' (hetelic ‘hostile, violent’; or hetollice ‘violently’), or hettan (v.) ‘to chase, persecute’

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

CCC1ac

Attestation

MED has only one further attestation, in a1425 Wycl.MCh.(Bod 788); OED adds Ray, N. Countrey Words (1673).

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Pat 373, WA 490, 520, 615 etc.

On the sense at WA 520 see TPDn.

Bibliography

MED hēte (adj.), OED heter, hetter (adj.), de Vries hata, Mag. hata, Bj-L hat, Bammesberger 212, Orel *xataz ~ *xatez, Kroonen *hatiz-, AEW hete