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† dahet, dathet Obs.
Forms: 3–4 dahet, daþet, (dayet), daþeit, dathait, daþeheit, daiþat, dait, dai.
[a. OF. dahet, dehet, usually dehé, dahé, daé, deé, also dehait, dahait; in pl. dehez, dahez, daez, dehaiz, ‘misfortune, mischief, evil, curse’, used only in imprecations.
As to the OF. word, see M. Gaston Paris in Romania (1889) 469. He shows it to be distinct from OF. deshait evil disposition or condition, sorrow, woe, etc., and suggests the meaning ‘God's hate’, in primitive Merovingian French *deu hat. In English, the primary dahet is very rare; the usual daþeit, datheit, dathet are difficult to account for, unless they represent the OF. phrase da(h)et ait, daat ait, or in pl. dahez, daez, daaz ait, just as in OF. itself M. Paris explains dehait, dahait, from the running together of dehé ait. Apparently, the phrase being thus taken for the simple word, the verb had to be added anew, as in OF. dehait ait! ME. daþeit haue! In Robert of Brunne written daþet with dotted þ̇, printed by Hearne as dotted ẏ.]
[= OF. dehet ait, dehait ait.] a. In the construction dahet have, dathet have: = May (he, etc.) have misfortune! a mischief, curse, damnation be to{ddd}
a1250Owl & Night. 99 Dahet habbe that ilke best, That fuleth his owe nest. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. Beket 1884 Daþeheit habbe þat so atstonde so folliche. c1320Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2395 Datheit haue thou..Al to loude thou spak thi Latin! c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 143 Daẏet haf his lip, & his nose þerbẏ.
b. without have [so OF. dehait, dahait]: A curse upon!
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. Beket 2036 Daþeit alle þat it seide! c1308Sat. People Kildare xiv. in E.E.P. (1862) 155 Daþeit ȝur curteisie, ȝe stinkeþ al þe strete. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 95 A Breton (daẏet his nose) for Roberd þider sent.
c. followed by relative clause [so OF. daha ait qui, dahait qui].
c1300Beket (Percy Soc.) 2072 Daithat hit so sede. c1300Havelok 300 Daþeit hwo it hire yeue. c1300Seyn Julian 202 Dait þat him wolde bymene. Ibid. 134 Dai þat wolde..him biseche. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 167 Daẏet þat þerof rouht, his was alle þe gilt.
⁋The following is prob. a mere coincidence: cf. dash it!
1875Lanc. Gloss., Dathit (Furness), interj. a mild curse on making a mishap. |