hatan

Adverb

 * 1) the six of us/you/them

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬. The Indo-European root is also the source of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to call, name
 * 2) to order, command, give orders, bid
 * 3) * c. 897, inscription on the
 * "ang"

- Ælfrēd mec hēht ġewyrċan.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
 * "ang"

- Hāt cuman tō mē þone cristenan mann...


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
 * "ang"

- ...and hēt hine warnian, ġif hē wolde libban, þæt hē nǣre on ðām mynstre nǣfre eft ġesewen...


 * 1) to promise
 * 2)  to be called
 * 3) * c. 970,
 * "ang"

- Friġe hwæt iċ hātte


 * 1) * c. 900,
 * "ang"

- Una þū hāttest yldost wyrta


 * "ang"

- Þis is sēo wyrt ðe wergulu hātte


 * 1) * c. 890,
 * "ang"

- On ðǣm bōcum ðe hātton Apocalypsin


 * 1) * c. 900,
 * "ang"

- Sum consul Boētius wæs '''hāten'


 * 1) * c. 980', Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni
 * "ang"

- Seo heofen & sǣ & eorðe sind ġehātene middanġeard

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 . 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.