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haver
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Scots haiver.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?he?v?/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?he?v??/
- Hyphenation: ha?ver
- Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
Verb
haver (third-person singular simple present havers, present participle havering, simple past and past participle havered)
- (Britain) To hem and haw
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 154
- This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 154
- (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 The Genius of Language (ed. Wendy Lesser), 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
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?he?v?/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?he?v??/
- Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
Noun
haver (plural havers)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) oats (the cereal).
Related terms
- haversack
Etymology 3
From Middle English haver, havere, equivalent to have +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hæv?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?hæv?/
Noun
haver (plural havers)
- One who has something; a possessor.
- 1608, Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Act II, Scene 2)
- 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.
- 1608, Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Act II, Scene 2)
- (law, Scotland) The person who has custody of a document.
Synonyms
- holder
- possessor
Anagrams
- Havre
Catalan
Alternative forms
- heure
- haure (Western Catalan)
Etymology
From Old Occitan aver, haver, from Latin habe? (“have, hold, possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *hab?? or *ha???, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?h?b?- (“to grab, to take”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /??v?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /??b?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a?ve?/
Verb
haver (first-person singular present he, past participle hagut)
- auxiliary verb for compound tenses
Conjugation
As heure, but with shortened present indicative, and with present subjunctive with -g- instead of -gu-. The 1st person form haig is only used in haver de.
Derived terms
- haver-hi
- haver de
- havedor
- temps ha
Noun
haver m (plural havers)
- a possession
- a credit
Further reading
- “haver” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “haver” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “haver” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “haver” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Noun
haver c
- indefinite plural of have
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch havere, from Old Dutch *havara, from Proto-Germanic *habrô. Cognate with Old Norse hafri, Old English haver, Old High German habaro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?.v?r/
- Rhymes: -a?v?r
Noun
haver m (uncountable, diminutive havertje n)
- any wild species or cultivar of the genus Avena
- in particular, Avena sativa, the cereal oats, notably fed to horses
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: haversack
Verb
haver
- imperative of haveren
- first-person singular present indicative of haveren
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (khaver), from Hebrew ???? (khaver, “friend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?v?r]
- Hyphenation: ha?ver
- Rhymes: -?r
Noun
haver (plural haverok)
- (slang) pal, buddy, dude
- Synonyms: barát, cimbora, pajtás
Declension
Italian
Verb
haver
- Apocopic form of havere
Ladino
Etymology
From Hebrew ????.
Noun
haver m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ???????, plural haverim)
- partner, comrade, associate
Old Portuguese
Alternative forms
- aver (non-latinized form)
Etymology
From Latin habe? (“to have, to hold, to possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *hab?? or *ha???, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?h?b?- (“to grab, to take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??e?/
Verb
haver
- to have
- to exist
Conjugation
Descendants
- Galician: haber
- Portuguese: haver
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- aver (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Portuguese aver, from Latin habe? (“to have, to hold, to possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *hab?? or *ha???, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?h?b?- (“to grab, to take”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?.?ve?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.?ve(?)/, [?.?ve(?)]
- (Paulista) IPA(key): /a.?ve(?)/, /a.?ve(?)/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /a.?ve(?)/, /a.?ve(?)/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /a.?ve(h)/
- Homophone: a ver
Verb
haver (first-person singular present indicative hei, past participle havido)
- (auxiliary with de and a verb in the infinitive) shall; ought to; should (forms a future tense, with a modal sense of compromise)
- (auxiliary with a verb in the masculine singular past participle) have (forms the perfect aspect)
- (in the past tense) forms the past perfect
- (in the present tense, archaic) forms the present perfect
- (in the past tense) forms the past perfect
- (impersonal, transitive) there be; exist
- (impersonal, transitive) there be; to happen; to occur
- (archaic, transitive) to have; to own; to possess
- to recover; to regain (to obtain something that had been lost)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to behave (to conduct oneself well, on in a given manner)
- (impersonal, transitive) it has been ... since; ago (indicates the time since something occurred)
Conjugation
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:haver.
Synonyms
- (shall): ir
- (form the perfect tense): ter (more informal)
- (to exist): existir, ter
- (to happen): acontecer, ocorrer, produzir-se, realizar-se, sobrevir suceder
- (to own): deter, possuir, ter
- (to regain): reaver, recuperar
- (it has been ... since): fazer
Antonyms
- (to exist): inexistir
Derived terms
Noun
haver m (plural haveres)
- outstanding debt
Synonyms
- dívida
Romansch
Alternative forms
- avair (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
- adaver, aver, ver (Sutsilvan)
Etymology
From Latin hab?re, present active infinitive of habe? (“have, hold, possess”).
Verb
haver
- (Sursilvan) to have
Conjugation
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”).
Noun
haver (uncountable)
- oats
Derived terms
- havermeal (“oatmeal, half-ground meal”)
- haverpoke (“horse's nosebag”)
Descendants
- ? English: haver
Etymology 2
Verb
haver (third-person singular present havers, present participle haverin, past havert, past participle havert)
- Alternative form of haiver
Swedish
Verb
haver
- has, have; present tense of hava., an older form of har
Anagrams
- havre
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halver
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??v?(r)
Noun
halver (plural halvers)
- a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
- (plural only) sharing in halves
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Vol.2
- like a Scotch schoolboy when he finds anything, "Nae halvers and quarters--hale o' mine ain and 'nane o' my neighbour's.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Vol.2
Anagrams
- Harvel
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
halver m or f
- indefinite plural of halve
Verb
halver
- imperative of halvere
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
halver
- imperative of halvera and halvere
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
halver f
- indefinite plural of halve
- indefinite plural of halva (non-standard since 2012)
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse halfr, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Adjective
halver
- half
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: halv
halver From the web:
- what does halverson mean
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- what nationality is halverson
- what state is hanover in
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