Old English · adjective

hat

Normalised hāt

Part of speech: adjective
IPA: /xɑːt/
[hɑːt]
Syllables: xɑːt (1 syllable)
Modern English: hot het hate hat promise

hat1 · adjective

Senses

hot

wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden, caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun. Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

then it beats near cliffs. My feet were squeezed by cold, bound by frost, with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,
þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen

Declension

Strong declension of hat
Singular
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	hāt	hāt	hāt
Accusative	hātne	hāte	hāt
Genitive	hātes	hātre	hātes
Dative	hātum	hātre	hātum
Instrumental	hāte	hātre	hāte
Plural
Nominative	hāte	hāta hāte	hāt
Accusative	hāte	hāta hāte	hāt
Genitive	hātra	hātra	hātra
Dative	hātum	hātum	hātum
Instrumental	hātum	hātum	hātum

Weak declension of hat
Singular
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	hāta	hāte	hāte
Accusative	hātan	hātan	hāte
Genitive	hātan	hātan	hātan
Dative	hātan	hātan	hātan
Instrumental	hātan	hātan	hātan
Plural
Nominative	hātan	hātan	hātan
Accusative	hātan	hātan	hātan
Genitive	hātra hātena	hātra hātena	hātra hātena
Dative	hātum	hātum	hātum
Instrumental	hātum	hātum	hātum

hat2 · noun · neuter

Senses

a promise

Declension · strong a-stem

Declension of hat
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hāt	hāt
Accusative	hāt	hāt
Genitive	hātes	hāta
Dative	hāte	hātum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hait. Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian hēt (West Frisian hjit), Old Saxon hēt, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe (“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith (“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.

From hātan.

Descendants

het, hot, hat, hate

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