have

Meaning

Synonyms

rich person

he has

I have

associated with

wealthy person

who has

belong to

there exists

occurence

t hold

make force

regard as

rest on

have ability to

have power to

have sufficient

wield

be necessary

endowed with

excel in

have diarrhea

have sexual intercourse

hold in hand

put on top

sore x

be endowed with

be armed with

be buried

be worried

be obliged

be crowned with

live under

be able

give birth to

give rise

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hæv/
Etymology

From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, present tense of *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”). Related to heave. Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin habeō is not etymologically related to English have), Proto-Indo-European probably lacked the have structure. Instead, the third person forms of be were used, with the possessor in dative case, compare Latin mihi est / sunt, literally to me is / are. cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian hääbe (“to have”), West Frisian hawwe (“to have”), Dutch hebben (“to have”), Afrikaans hê (“to have”), Low German hebben, hewwen (“to have”), German haben (“to have”), Danish have (“to have”), Swedish hava (“to have”), Norwegian Nynorsk ha (“to have”), Icelandic hafa (“to have”), Albanian kap (“I grab, catch, grip”), Latin capiō (“take”, verb), Russian хапать (xapatʹ, “to seize”).

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