haten

From Middle Dutch haten, from Old Dutch haton, from Proto-Germanic *hatōną, *hatjaną, from *hataz (modern haat).

Cognate with English hate, German hassen.

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• Rhymes: -aːtən
• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaːtə(n)/

haten

1. to hate

• haat

haten

1. first-person plural preterite indicative of hunn
2. third-person plural preterite indicative of hunn

• hatien, heatien, hatiȝen, hatenn, haate, hatye, hatyn, hate

From Old English hatian, from Proto-Germanic *hatōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːtən/

haten

1. To feel negative emotions towards something:
   1. To experience dislike or hatred towards someone.
   2. To hate someone; to permanently dislike or hate someone.
   3. To view someone as beneath oneself; to feel contemptuous towards someone.
   4. (rare) To dislike doing something.
2. To perform negative acts towards something:
   1. To attack, punish, or harass someone; to insult.
   2. To refuse to do something; to avoid doing something.
   3. To ruin something; to cause the destruction of something.
   4. (rare) To be inherently opposed to something.

• English: hate
• Scots: hate

• “hāten (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.