avoir
French
noun
Definitions
- asset, possession
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French avoir inherited from Old French avoir inherited from Latin 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 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
- avoir les jambes en coton French
- coton French
- en French
- jambe French
- les French
- ravoir French
- *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- avoir de pois Middle English
- aveir Old French
- avoir Old French
- avea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- avaer Norman
- avoir Middle French
- ravoir Middle French
- aver Old Portuguese
- *gabaglā Proto-Celtic
- amu Aromanian
- aver Occitan
- *habēō Proto-Italic
- aver Old Occitan
- aver Old Spanish
- aer Venetian
- aver Venetian
- avéi Ligurian
- aivoi Bourguignon
- avè Corsican
- a Louisiana Creole French
- avêr Franco-Provençal
- avoér Picard
- avèj Piedmontese
- avêr Emilian