English
Judenhetze
Judenhetze comes from German Judenhetze.
- Germanc. 1650–presentJudenhetzeliterally ‘Jew-baiting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1870same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Germanc. 1650–presentJudenhetzeliterally ‘Jew-baiting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1870same form
Earliest quotation: 1870, Echoes from the Continent: “The Vienna New Free Press, of Oct. 10, reports…”
A compound of Jude ‘Jew’ + Hetze ‘baiting’
Hebrew יְהוּדָה
Ancient Greek Ἰουδά ‘Judah’
Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος ‘Jew or Judean’
Latin iūdaeus ‘Judaean, Jew’
Old High German judo
Middle High German jude ‘a Jew’
German Jude ‘Jew’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- ‘strong emotion’
Proto-Germanic *hatjaną ‘to hunt down, pursue, persecute, attack’
Proto-West Germanic *hattjan ‘to hunt down, pursue’
Old High German hezzen ‘to pursue’
Middle High German hetzen
German hetzen ‘to chase’
German Hetze ‘baiting’
The story
Unadapted borrowing from German Judenhetze (literally “Jew-baiting”), from Jude (‘Jew’) + Hetze (‘baiting; agitating; rabble-rousing; witch-hunting’).
Every English word from German Judenhetze
Today it means
noun Anti-Semitism; chiefly in the context of Central or Eastern Europe, from the late 19th century until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945: Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / German Judenhetze / Judenhetze