habban

hab +‎ -ban

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒbːɒn]
• Hyphenation: hab‧ban

habban

1. inessive singular of hab

• hafian

From Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“take, seize”). Cognate with Old Frisian hebba, Old Saxon hebbian (Low German hebben), Dutch hebben, Old High German habēn (German haben), Old Norse hafa (Swedish ha, hava, Danish have), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin capere, Old Irish cacht, Albanian kap (“grip”), Slavic *xopiti (Old Church Slavonic хапѭште (xapjǫšte), Russian хапать (xapatʹ), Bulgarian хапя (hápja)), Baltic *kap- (Lithuanian kàpteleti, Latvian kàmpt (“bite”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑb.bɑn/

habban

1. to have, to possess
2. (auxiliary) have (used with a participle to express the perfect tense)
   • early 12th century, the Peterborough Chronicle

     Þās þing wē habbaþ be him ġewriten.

     We have written these things about him.

• As an auxiliary, habban was used with transitive verbs, while wesan or bēon were used with intransitive verbs.

• hebban
• hæft
• hefiġ

• Middle English: haven, have, haav, haf, hafe, haben, habben, heven, hawe
  • English: have
  • Scots: hae, ha, hiv, have, hawe

• Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary