hatan

== Gothic == === Romanization === hatan romanization of 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽 == Hungarian == === 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. == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *haitan (“to command, name”). === 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 late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr" late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot" to promise (passive voice) to be called c. 970, Exeter Riddle 16 c. 900, Nine Herbs Charm c. 890, King Alfred's Translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care c. 900, The Old English Boethius c. 980', Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni ==== 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") seem to be more common than iċ hātte or iċ eom ġehāten in prose texts. Using hātan in this sense is more common in poetry, as well as in 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. It may be that using hātan when introducing one's self may have been an archaism by the literate Old English period, although the fact that first- and second-person verbs are somewhat underrepresented in the prose corpus (due to the types of texts that have survived) cannot be ignored. Regardless, it was very commonly used for naming people in the third-person, and some first-person prose uses are attested as late as the Middle English period. An example is also attested in the Early Modern English period in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': "which lion hight by name". ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: hoten, hoaten, hatenEnglish: hightScots: hate, hait === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hatan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.