An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/haschen

by Friedrich Kluge

haschen, verb, ‘to snatch,’ a Middle German word made current by Luther, unknown to the modern Upper German dialects as well as to Old High German, Middle High German, and all other languages. Probably connected with haft, heben, root haf (Latin capio); Gothic *hafskón, ‘to seize,’ must have become *haskôn in German, just as Gothic haifsts, feminine, ‘quarrel, fight,’ has become the Old High German adjective heisti, ‘violent’; compare Old High German forscôn, ‘to demand,’ for *forhskôn, Gothic waúrstw, ‘work, for *waúrhstw. Compare harsch, Hast, Hauste.