The word is built the plain way: hate, plus -er for the one who does it. So the first picture is simply a person with something they cannot stand, and the thing is normally named right beside them — a man hater, a hater of waste. Then the internet kept the shape and dropped the object. Nobody says what is hated any more; it is understood to be you. And once the object disappeared, the word had room to carry a judgement instead: that the dislike is not earned, and is probably envy.

這個字的組成很直白:hate 加上 -er,也就是「做這件事的人」。所以第一個畫面就是一個有受不了的東西的人,而那樣東西通常就寫在旁邊——a man hater、a hater of waste。後來網路把這個形狀留著,卻把受詞丟掉了。沒人再說恨的是什麼,因為大家都懂:恨的是你。受詞一消失,空出來的位置就被拿去裝評價:說那份不滿沒道理,多半只是眼紅。

From the word’s history

From Middle English hatere, that is hate plus -er, the ending for the person who does something. Old English had hetend for an enemy, literally a hater, and the same build shows up in German Hasser and Danish hader.

來自中古英語的 hatere,也就是 hate 加上表示「做這件事的人」的 -er。古英語用 hetend 指敵人,字面上就是「恨的人」。同樣的造法在德文 Hasser、丹麥文 hader 裡也看得到,所以這是日耳曼語系裡很老的一種構詞。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:646111850): From Middle English hatere, equivalent to hate + -er; compare Old English hetend, Dutch hater, German Hasser, Danish hader.

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