hate – English noun declension

English noun forms of hate

Noun: hate
Singularhate
Pluralhates

Sample Sentences

  • One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.
  • He gave me a look filled with pure hate.
  • There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Lady Gaga from her fans.
  • The corporation said it would not tolerate hate.

Etymology

1. From Middle English haate, hat, hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English het, hete (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-West Germanic *hati, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- (“angriness, hatred”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Dutch haat (“hatred”), German Hass, Haß (“hate, hatred”), Luxembourgish Haass (“hate, hatred”), Vilamovian hās (“hate, hatred”), Yiddish האַס (has, “hatred”), Danish had (“hate, hatred”), Faroese and Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hat (“hate, hatred”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃 (hatis, “hate, wrath”); also Breton and Cornish kas (“hatred”), Old Irish miscuis (“hatred”), Welsh cas (“hatred”), Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌃𐌄𐌝𐌔 (kadeís, “enmity”), Ancient Greek κῆδος (kêdos, “care for others; troubles; mourning”), Sanskrit रि॒शाद॑स् (riśā́das, “benign or devouring or destroying enemies”).
4. The verb is from Middle English haate, hate, haten, hatenn, hatien, hatiȝen, hatye, hatyn, heatien, from Old English hatian (“to hate, treat as an enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *hatēn, from Proto-Germanic *hatāną (“to hate”), from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from the same root as above.
5. Cognates
6. Cognate with Saterland Frisian hoatje (“to hate”), West Frisian haatsje (“to hate”), Cimbrian haazan (“to hate”), Dutch haten (“to hate”), German hassen (“to hate”), Luxembourgish haassen (“to hate”), Yiddish האַסן (hasn, “to hate”), Danish hade (“to hate”), Icelandic, Faroese, and Swedish hata (“to hate”), Norwegian Bokmål hate (“to hate”), Norwegian Nynorsk hata, hate (“to hate”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽 (hatan, “to hate”). See: Middle English Nouns 'haate', Old English Nouns 'hatian', Old Norse Nouns 'hatr', Middle English Nouns 'het', Old English Nouns 'hete', Dutch Nouns 'haat', German Nouns 'Hass', Danish Nouns 'had', Gothic Nouns '𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κῆδος', Middle English Nouns 'haate', Old English Nouns 'hatian'.

Verbs referencing "hate"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hat, Dutch Nouns haat, German Nouns Hass, Polish Nouns hejt.