habban
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habban
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“take, seize”).
Cognate with Old Frisian hebba, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German habēn, Old Norse hafa, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban), Latin capere, Old Irish cacht, Albanian kap (“grip”), Russian ха́пать (xápatʹ), Lithuanian kàpteleti.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
habban
- to have, possess
- (auxiliary) have (used with a participle to express the perfect tense)
- early 12th century, the Peterborough Chronicle
- Þās þing wē habbaþ be him ġewriten.
- We have written these things about him.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 42:36
- Þā cwæþ Iācōb heora fæder, "Bearnlēasne ġē habbaþ mē ġedōnne. Næbbe iċ Iōsēp and Simeon is on bendum; nū ġē nimaþ Beniamin æt mē."
- Then Jacob, their father, said, "You have made me childless. I don't have Joseph and Simeon is in chains; now you're taking Benjamin from me."
- early 12th century, the Peterborough Chronicle
- (catenative) have to (+ to-infinitive)
- The Gospel of St. Luke
- Iċ hæbbe þē tō secgenne sum ðing
- I have to say something to you.
- The Gospel of St. Luke
Usage notes edit
- As an auxiliary, habban was generally used with transitive verbs, while wesan or bēon were generally used with intransitive verbs.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of habban (weak class 3)
infinitive | habban | hæbbenne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | hæbbe | hæfde |
second person singular | hæfst | hæfdest |
third person singular | hæfþ | hæfde |
plural | habbaþ | hæfdon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | hæbbe | hæfde |
plural | hæbben | hæfden |
imperative | ||
singular | hafa | |
plural | habbaþ | |
participle | present | past |
hæbbende | (ġe)hæfd |
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References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “habban”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.