haya
Meaning
-
beech, beech tree
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ha‧ya
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈaʝa/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish faya, from Latin [materia] fāgea, from fāgus, from Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos. Compare Galician and Portuguese faia.
New
haber
-
- (auxiliary) have; forms the perfect aspect
- (obsolete) to hold, to possess
- (impersonal) to exist; “there is”, “there are” (hay); “there was”, “there were” (había)
- (dated,formal) to have to
- to be necessary
- used to denote a past obligation
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