hatan

See also: hatán, hátán, and hat an

Romanization

hatan

Romanization of 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽

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Cardinal: hat Nominal: hatos Ordinal: hatodik Day of month: hatodika A.o.: hatodszor, hatodjára Adverbial: hatszor Multiplier: hatszoros Distributive: hatosával Collective: mind a hat Fractional: hatod Number of people: hatan

Etymology

hat +‎ -an (adverb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈhɒtɒn]
Hyphenation: ha‧tan
Rhymes: -ɒn

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 [of the] vegetarians in our class.

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Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haitan (“to command, name”).

Cognates

Cognate with Old Frisian hēta, Old Saxon hētan, Old High German heizzan, Old Norse heita (Swedish heta), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek κίειν (kíein, “put in motion”), Latin ciēre (“rouse, make active”) and Albanian cys (“to spur, set in motion”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxɑː.tɑn/, [ˈhɑː.tɑn]

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 to be made.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
  Hāt cuman tō mē þone cristenan mann...
  Tell the Christian man to 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
- c. 970, Exeter Riddle 16
  Friġe hwæt iċ hātte
  Guess what I am called
- c. 900, Nine Herbs Charm
  Una þū hāttest yldost wyrta
  Una you are called the eldest of the herbs
  
  Þis is sēo wyrt ðe wergulu hātte
  This is the herb which is called wergulu
- c. 890, King Alfred's Translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
  On ðǣm bōcum ðe hātton Apocalypsin
  In the books called Apocalypse
- c. 900, The Old English Boethius
  Sum consul Boētius wæs hāten'
  A certain consul who was called Boethius
- c. 980', Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni
  Seo heofen & sǣ & eorðe sind ġehātene middanġeard
  The sky and sea and ground are called the Earth

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

More information infinitive, indicative mood ...

indicative mood	present tense	past tense
infinitive	hātan	hātenne
first person singular	hāte	hēt, hēht
second person singular	hǣtst	hēte, hēhte
third person singular	hǣtt, hǣt	hēt, hēht
plural	hātaþ	hēton, hēhton
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	hāte	hēte, hēhte
plural	hāten	hēten, hēhten
imperative
singular	hāt
plural	hātaþ
participle	present	past
	hātende	(ġe)hāten

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Conjugation of hātan (strong class 7)

Derived terms

āhātan (“to call, name”)
behātan (“to promise”)
forhātan (“to renounce”)
ġehātan (“to promise”)
onhātan (“to promise”)

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”)
ġehāt (“a promise, oath”)
ġehātland (“the promised land”)
hǣs (“a command, hest, or behest”)
hāt (“a promise, oath”)
hāte (“a bidding, calling, invitation”)
nīedhǣs (“a command under compulsion”)
wīnhāte (“a feast, party”)

Descendants

Middle English: hoten, hoaten, haten
- English: hote, hight
- Scots: hate, hait

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hatan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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