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Gothic
Romanization
hatan
- Romanization of 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽
Hungarian
Etymology
hat + -an (adverb-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
Adverb
hatan (not comparable)
- the six of us/you/them
- Hatan vagyunk a csoportban. ― There are six of us in the group. (literally, “We are of six…”)
- Az osztályunkban hatan vannak vegetáriánusok. ― There are six vegetarians in our class.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *haitan (“to command, name”).
Pronunciation
Verb
hātan
- to call, name
- to order, command, give orders, bid
- c. 897, inscription on the Alfred Jewel
Ælfrēd mec hēht ġewyrċan.- Alfred ordered me made.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
Hāt cuman tō mē þone cristenan mann...- Bid the Christian man come to me,...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
...and hēt hine warnian, ġif hē wolde libban, þæt hē nǣre on ðām mynstre nǣfre eft ġesewen...- ...and gave orders to warn him, if he wished to live, that he should never be seen in the monastery again...
- to promise
- (passive voice) to be called
Usage notes
- Uniquely among Old English verbs, in sense 4 hātan retains forms of the Proto-Germanic synthetic passive, functioning like German heißen, with which it is cognate. These are attested in the present singular as hātte for the first and third person, hāttest for the second person, and in the present plural as hātton. For the past tense, the usual strategies for expressing the passive were used: iċ wæs ġehāten, etc. The usual analytic passive is also attested for the present tense, and in some cases appears to be preferred.
- For introducing one's self by name in the first person, expressions like mīn nama is ("my name is") are overwhelmingly preferred over expressions like iċ hātte or iċ eom ġehāten in prose texts. Using hātan in this sense mainly seems to have been confined to poetry, and to some self-referential uses for objects, e.g. the ᚻᚱᛁᚾᚷᛁᚳᚻᚪᛏᛏᚫ (hring ic hattæ, literally "I am called ring") inscription on the Wheatley Hill finger-ring. This suggests that using hātan when introducing one's self may have been an archaism by the literate Old English period. However, it was very commonly used for naming people in the third-person, and some rare first-person prose uses are attested as late as the Middle English period.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- andettan (“to confess, acknowledge”)
- behǣs (“a self behest, a self command”)
- behāt (“a promise, oath”)
- behātland (“the promised land”)
- forhātena (“an ill-named person, scoundrel”)
- hǣs (“a command, hest, or behest”)
- hāt (“a promise, oath”)
- hāte (“a bidding, calling, invitation”)
- nīedhǣs (“a command under compulsion”)
- wīnhāte (“a feast, party”)
- ġehāt (“a promise, oath”)
- ġehātland (“the promised land”)
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