haber
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (auxiliary verb taking past participle to build various perfect tenses) to have
- to hold; to possess
- (impersonal) to exist; “there is”, “there are” (hay); “there was”, “there were” (había)
- (dated or formal outside Spain) to have to do + de + infinitive
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish aver derived from Latin *aveo, habeō (have, hold, possess, keep, I have, own) derived from Proto-Italic *habēō derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰ- (take, grab).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰh₁bʰ-
Gloss
take, grab
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- due English
- *aveo Latin
- *habunt Latin
- abhibeo Latin
- adhibeo Latin
- antehabeo Latin
- cohibeo Latin
- debeo Latin
- diribeo Latin
- exhibeo Latin
- habeo Latin
- habere, habeo Latin
- habeō Latin
- habilis Latin
- habēre Latin
- habēre, habeō Latin
- inhibeo Latin
- perhibeo Latin
- posthabeo Latin
- praebeo Latin
- praehibeo Latin
- prohibeo Latin
- redhibeo Latin
- *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- aveir Old French
- avoir Old French
- avea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- aver Old Portuguese
- *gabaglā Proto-Celtic
- amu Aromanian
- *habēō Proto-Italic
- aver Old Occitan
- aver Old Spanish
- aer Venetian
- aver Venetian
- avéi Ligurian
- aver Ladino
- אביר Ladino
- abir Hiligaynon
- avêr Franco-Provençal
- avèj Piedmontese
- avêr Emilian