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Hac , ‘fellow, churl’; allied to hę̂chel,, ‘artful woman, match-maker.’ The derivation is not clear, since cognate terms in  are wanting.   , see.   ,, ‘heel,’ a  and  word (in  );   hak; not recorded in , but it occurs once in the transition period from  to  (hachun, ‘heels’); usually derived from. On account of its meaning, it is more probably related to hiel,  hôh, ‘heel,’ hêla,  (for *hôhila),  heel, and the   hœ̂ll,.  ,, from the  hacken, ‘to hack, hew’;  *hacchôn is by chance not recorded;   haccian (hœccean),  to hack,  tohakia, ‘to hack to pieces.’ Not found in ; may we assume *hawôn, a derivative from the stem haw in ? The medial guttural may have been simply an insertion before w, as in and. —, (thus even in ),  ( only), and  are derivatives.   (1.),, ‘contention, strife, brawl,’ from hader, , ‘quarrel, strife’; unrecorded in. For this word has most frequently a  in u- (w-), signifying ‘battle,’ which appears in West  only as the first part of compounds;  heaþo-,  hadu- ( *haþu-). In Hǫð is the name of a Valkyre, and Hǫðr that of a mythological king and the brother of Balder; the names are probably based upon Haþu-z, an  war-god. With these Κότυς, the name of a Thracian goddess, has been compared. The following, however, are certainly allied: — kotora,, ‘battle,’  cath, , ‘battle’ (with which  Catu-rîges, proper noun,  ‘war-kings,’ is connected),  çátru-s, ‘enemy’; perhaps too  κότος, κοτέω; a  in r, like , is preserved in  kotora, ‘battle’; see also. In the old form haþu became obsolete at an early period, being supplanted by  and, but it was retained in  as the first component in some compound proper names, such as Hadubrant;   is  Haduwîg, ‘battle strife.’ Similarly appears  hilta, , ‘battle,’ in  only in proper names, such as , , &c. It would be very interesting to find out why the words gave place to the later forms.

 (2.),, ‘rag, tatter, clout,’ from hader, , ‘patch, torn piece of stuff,’  hadara, , ‘patch, rag’; also with a suffix l,  hadel, from which  haillon is borrowed. The word does not seem to have been diffused in the group. It is not allied to (1.); the two words are based on different stems. , ‘patch’ (from haþrô, Aryan kátrâ), is either connected with the nasalised stem kant- in  cento,  κέντρων, ‘garment made of rags,’  kanthâ,, ‘patchwork garment,’ or with  çithirá, ‘loose, unbound.’    (1.),, ‘pot,’ from haven, ,  havan, , ‘pot’; a specifically  word unknown to the other dialects. It belongs to the root haf (pre- kap), ‘to comprehend, hold,’ which appears in , and not to , root hab (pre- khabh).

 (2.),, ‘port, haven, harbour,’ a word, unknown to ; it was first borrowed in ; in  hap, , habe, habene, , formed from the same root. haven,, late hœfene, ,  haven, and  hǫfn, , ‘harbour,’ correspond in sound to  habene,   haven,  havn,  hamn, are. — Phonetically the derivation from the root hab (khabh), ‘to have,’ or from haf, hab (kap), ‘to seize, hold, contain,’ is quite possible; in both cases the sense would be ‘receptacle’;   (1.). This is the usual explanation; for another etymology see under. Perhaps, however, hǫfn is  allied to the   cúan (from *copno?).   , see.   ,, ‘inland sea, gulf,’ a word,  ‘sea’ (generally), which is also the meaning of  hœf ( heafu), ,  haf, ,  haf; the  words,  hap, habes, , and habe, , which correspond in sound, also signify ‘sea,’ as well as ‘port’ (see ). As we need not assume an difference between the words for ‘harbour’ and ‘sea,’ and since in any case the meaning ‘harbour’ is derived from the signification ‘sea’ — the converse would be hardly possible — the usual assumption mentioned under  (2.), that  is  ‘receptacle,’ is quite problematical. Hence may probably be explained by some such word as ‘marina,’ in the sense of ‘statio marina.’ The connection of  hœf, ‘sea,’ as ‘heaving,’ in 