Hader

See also: hader

English

Etymology

  • As a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Hader (fight, battle).
  • Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the noun Hader (rags, tattered clothes).
  • Also as a German surname, variant of Heider.

Proper noun

Hader (countable and uncountable, plural Haders)

  1. A surname from German.
  2. An unincorporated community in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Hader is the 35203rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 640 individuals. Hader is most common among White (90.47%) individuals.

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German hader, from Old High German hadu- (battle), from Proto-West Germanic *haþu. Akin to Old English *heaþu.

Other Indo-European cognates include Old Norse hǫð/ hǫðr (battle), Irish cath (battle), Proto-Slavic *kotera / *kotora (quarrel, fight) and Sanskrit शत्रु (śatru, foe).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Noun

Hader m (strong, genitive Haders, no plural)

  1. dispute, quarrel
    • 1534, Bible, tr. Martin Luther, Moses 5 1:12:
      Wie kann ich allein solche Mühe und Last und Hader von euch ertragen?
      How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? (King James Version)
    • 1534, Bible, tr. Martin Luther, Moses 5 25:1:
      Wenn ein Hader ist zwischen Männern, so soll man sie vor Gericht bringen und sie richten
      If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them (King James Version)
    • 1801, Friedrich Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, act 1 scene 9:
      Umarmt euch, Prinzen! / Laßt allen Groll und Hader jetzo schwinden.
      Embrace each other, princes! Let all grudge and quarrel now fade away.
    • 1862, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Die Nibelungen, act 1 scene 2:
      Sie wird das heil'ge Zeichen nicht entweihn, / Das allem Hader unter Menschenkindern / Ein Ende setzte, seit die Erde steht.
      She will not desecrate the holy symbol, which ended all quarrel among mankind since Earth began.
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle High German hader, from Old High German hadara, of uncertain ultimate origin, but Kluge compares Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, garment made of rags, something with a sharp point), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom (pointed tool).[1]

Noun

Hader m (strong, genitive Haders, plural Hader)

  1. rag, cloth scrap, lumpen
  2. cleaning rag, scouring cloth
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Hader”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

  • Hader” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache