hæteru

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hatiʀu, originally the fossilised plural of a z-stem noun; related to Middle High German hāȥ, hæȥ, hæȥe (“garment, clothing”),[1] from Proto-West Germanic *hāt (“garment, clothing”) +‎ -ru.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxæ.te.ru/, [ˈhæ.te.ru]

Noun

hæteru n pl

  1. clothing[2]

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative — hæteru
accusative — hæteru
genitive — hætera
dative — hæterum

Descendants

  • Middle English: hater, hatere, hatir, hatter, hattir, hatyr, heater, hetter

References

  1. ^ “hatter, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2017.
  2. ^ Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hæteru”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.
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