behabban
Old English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to surround or embrace something
- (transitive) to hold or contain somebody or something
- (intransitive) to understand something (+ dative or + on)
- (transitive) to withhold or hold something back
- (transitive) to restrain or detain somebody
Etymology
Prefix from Old English habban (possess, have).
Origin
Old English
habban
Gloss
possess, have
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- behave English
- behaver English
- behavest English
- behaveth English
- behavior English
- behaviour English
- have English
- hobnob English
- misbehave English
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- *habjaną Proto-Germanic
- ahabban Old English
- forhabban Old English
- gehabban Old English
- habban Old English
- oferhabban Old English
- ofhabban Old English
- onhabban Old English
- wiþerhabban Old English
- wiþhabban Old English
- ymbhabban Old English
- æthabban Old English
- behaven Middle English
- haven Middle English
- *habbjan gmw-pro