See also: Haver and häver

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Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Scots haiver.

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haver (third-person singular simple present havers, present participle havering, simple past and past participle havered)

  1. (Britain) To hem and haw.
  2. (Scotland) To talk foolishly; to chatter.
    Synonyms: babble, haiver, maunder
    • 1988, The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles):
      And if I haver, yeah I know I’m gonna be / I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you.
    • 2004, James Campbell, “Boswell and Mrs. Miller”, in Wendy Lesser, editor, The Genius of Language, page 194:
      She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (oat, oats), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (oat, oats), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (goat). Cognate with Dutch haver (oats), cognate with German Hafer (oat).

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haver (plural havers)

  1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Oats (the cereal).
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Etymology 3 edit

From Middle English haver, havere, equivalent to have +‎ -er.

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haver (plural havers)

  1. One who has something (in various senses).
    • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
      It is held / That valour is the chiefest virtue, and / Most dignifies the haver: if it be, / The man I speak of cannot in the world / Be singly counterpoised.
    • 2012, Robert Kurzban, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite, page 186:
      Because abortion would no longer be an issue (except, again, in the case of criminal sex-havers), Democrats and republicans would stop fighting []
    • 2018 July 23, Katy Waldman, “A Sociologist Examines the "White Fragility" That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism”, in New Yorker[1]:
      Yet, DiAngelo writes, white people cling to the notion of racial innocence, a form of weaponized denial that positions black people as the "havers" of race and the guardians of racial knowledge.
    • 2022 December 2, Tessa Flores, “What Our Shopping Editors Are Buying From Sephora's Holiday Sale”, in Huffington Post[2]:
      As a haver of eczema and chronically parched skin, I know I can always return to this nourishing formula that uses soothing colloidal oatmeal and allantoin as well as shea butter which works to protect the skin barrier.
  2. (law, Scotland) The person who has custody of a document.
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Hebrew חבר

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haver (plural haverim)

  1. Alternative form of chaver

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Catalan edit

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Catalan haver, from Latin habēre (have, hold, possess), probably from a Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰ- (to grab, to take).

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haver (first-person singular present he, first-person singular preterite haguí, past participle hagut); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/ (as auxiliary)
haver (first-person singular present hec or hac, first-person singular preterite haguí, past participle hagut); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/ (as full verb)

  1. (auxiliary) auxiliary verb to form compound tenses or perfect tenses, together with a past participle
    ho he fet jo
    I have done it

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as auxiliary
as full verb

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haver m (plural havers)

  1. a possession
  2. a credit

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haver c

  1. indefinite plural of have

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Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch havere, from Old Dutch *havara, from Proto-Germanic *habrô. Cognate with Old Norse hafri, Old English haver, Old High German habaro.

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haver m (uncountable, diminutive havertje n)

  1. any wild species or cultivar of the genus Avena
  2. in particular, Avena sativa, the cereal oats, notably fed to horses

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  • Jersey Dutch: hâver
  • English: haversack
  • Papiamentu: haver
  • West Frisian: haver (dialectal)

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haver

  1. inflection of haveren:
    1. imperative
    2. first-person singular present indicative

Galician edit

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haver (first-person singular present hei, first-person singular preterite houvem or houve, past participle havido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of haber

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References edit

  • haver” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver), from Hebrew חבר (khaver, friend).[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒvɛr]
  • Hyphenation: ha‧ver
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

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haver (plural haverok)

  1. (slang) pal, buddy, dude
    Synonyms: barát, cimbora, pajtás
  2. (derogatory) accomplice (partner in crime)
    Synonyms: cinkostárs, bűntárs

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative haver haverok
accusative havert haverokat
dative havernak haveroknak
instrumental haverral haverokkal
causal-final haverért haverokért
translative haverrá haverokká
terminative haverig haverokig
essive-formal haverként haverokként
essive-modal
inessive haverban haverokban
superessive haveron haverokon
adessive havernál haveroknál
illative haverba haverokba
sublative haverra haverokra
allative haverhoz haverokhoz
elative haverból haverokból
delative haverról haverokról
ablative havertól haveroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
haveré haveroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
haveréi haverokéi
Possessive forms of haver
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. haverom haverjaim
2nd person sing. haverod haverjaid
3rd person sing. haverja haverjai
1st person plural haverunk haverjaink
2nd person plural haverotok haverjaitok
3rd person plural haverjuk haverjaik

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References edit

  1. ^ haver in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations

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  • haver in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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haver (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of havere
    • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Proemio [Introduction]”, in Decamerone [Decameron]‎[3], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page xviii:
      Humana coſa è haver compaſſione de gli afflitti
      It is human to have compassion for the troubled

Ladino edit

Etymology edit

From Hebrew חבר (khavér).

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haver m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling חאב׳יר, plural haverim)

  1. partner, comrade, associate

Further reading edit

  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “ḥaƀer”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977), “javér”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 253
  • Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000), “haver”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 193

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

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haver

  1. Alternative spelling of aver

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aver, from Latin habēre (to have, to hold, to possess). Compare Galician haber. Cognate of Spanish haber, French avoir, and Italian avere.

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haver (first-person singular present hei, first-person singular preterite houve, past participle havido)

  1. (auxiliary with de and a verb in the infinitive) shall; ought to; should (forms a future tense, with a modal sense of compromise)
    Amanhã, hei de ver o filme.
    Tomorrow, I ought to watch the movie.
  2. (auxiliary with a verb in the masculine singular past participle) have (forms the perfect aspect)
    1. (formal, in the past tense) forms the past perfect
      Eu já havia entrado quando chegaste.
      I had already gotten in when you arrived.
    2. (in the present tense, archaic) forms the present perfect
      Hei estudado muito, nos últimos dias.
      I have been studying much, in these last days.
  3. (impersonal, transitive) there be; exist
    um banco aqui perto.
    There is a bank nearby.
  4. (impersonal, transitive) there be; to happen; to occur
    Houve um acidente na alameda.
    There was an accident in the avenue.
  5. (archaic, transitive) to have; to own; to possess
    Hei duas espadas.
    I have two swords.
  6. (Brazil) to recover; to regain (to obtain something that had been lost)
    Preciso de haver meu dinheiro.
    I need to recover my money.
    Synonym: reaver
  7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to behave (to conduct oneself well, on in a given manner)
  8. (impersonal, transitive) it has been ... since; ago (indicates the time since something occurred)
    Terminei a faculdade um mês.
    It has been one month since I’ve finished college.

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:haver.

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haver m (plural haveres)

  1. credit
  2. (in the plural) belongings
  3. (in the plural) assets

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From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (have, hold, possess).

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haver

  1. (Sursilvan) to have

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Scots edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (oat, oats), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (oat, oats), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (goat).

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haver (uncountable)

  1. oats
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haver (third-person singular simple present havers, present participle haverin, simple past havert, past participle havert)

  1. Alternative form of haiver

Swedish edit

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haver

  1. has, have; present indicative of hava, an older form of har

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