| Front | Hagt. |
|---|---|
| Back | 'danger,peril,' comparing this ME hagt with Icel. hA|tta which has the same meaning. Kluge connects this hA|tta with Gothic ha*han, to hang, so that it may mean radically 'a state of being in suspense.' The word must have come into England in the form *_haht, before the assimilation of ht to tt. |
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