haver

Borrowed from Scots haiver.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪvə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈheːvəɹ/
• Hyphenation: ha‧ver
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

haver (third-person singular simple present havers, present participle havering, simple past and past participle havered)

1. (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.

2. (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."

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪvə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈheːvəɹ/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

haver (plural havers)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) oats (the cereal).

have +‎ -er

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhævɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhævə/

haver (plural havers)

1. 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.

2. (law, Scotland) The person who has custody of a document.

• holder
• possessor

• Havre

• heure
• haure (Western Catalan)

From Old Occitan aver, haver, from Latin habeō (“have, hold, possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰ- (“to grab, to take”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əˈvə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /əˈbɛ/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aˈveɾ/

haver (first-person singular present he, past participle hagut)

1. auxiliary verb for compound tenses

   he fet

   I have done

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.

• haver-hi
• haver de
• havedor
• temps ha

haver m (plural havers)

1. a possession
2. a credit

• “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.

haver c

1. indefinite plural of have

From Middle Dutch havere, from Old Dutch *havara, from Proto-Germanic *habrô. Cognate with Old Norse hafri, Old English haver, Old High German habaro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaː.vər/

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• Rhymes: -aːvər

haver m (uncountable, diminutive havertje n)

1. any wild species or cultivar of the genus Avena
2. in particular, Avena sativa, the cereal oats, notably fed to horses

• English: haversack

haver

1. imperative of haveren
2. first-person singular present indicative of haveren

Borrowed from Yiddish חבֿר‎ (khaver), from Hebrew חבר‎ (khaver, “friend”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒvɛr]
• Hyphenation: ha‧ver

haver (plural haverok)

1. (slang) pal, buddy, dude

   Synonyms: barát, cimbora, pajtás

haver

1. to have, to possess

From Hebrew חבר‎.

haver m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling חאב׳יר‎)

1. partner, comrade

• aver (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese aver, from Latin habeō (“to have, to hold, to possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰ- (“to grab, to take”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈveɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈve(ɾ)/, /aˈve(χ)/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /aˈve(ɹ)/, /aˈve(ɾ)/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈve(ɻ)/, /aˈve(ɾ)/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈve(h)/

haver (first-person singular present indicative hei, past participle havido)

1. (auxiliary with de and a verb in the infinitive) shall; ought to; should (forms a future tense, with a modal sense of compromise)

   Amanhã, hei de ver o filme.

   Tomorrow, I ought to watch the movie.

2. (auxiliary with a verb in the masculine singular past participle) have (forms the perfect aspect)
   1. (in the past tense) forms the past perfect

      Eu já havia entrado quando chegaste.

      I had already gotten in when you arrived.

   2. (in the present tense, archaic) forms the present perfect

      Eu hei estudado muito, nos últimos dias.

      I have been studying much, in these last days.

3. (formal, impersonal, transitive) there be; exist

   Há um banco aqui perto.

   There is a bank nearby.

4. (formal, impersonal, transitive) there be; to happen; to occur

   Houve um acidente na alameda.

   There was an accident in the avenue.

5. (archaic, transitive) to have; to own; to possess

   Hei duas espadas.

   I have two swords.

6. to recover; to regain (to obtain something that had been lost)

   Preciso de haver meu dinheiro.

   I need to recover my money.

7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to behave (to conduct oneself well, on in a given manner)
8. (impersonal, transitive) it has been ... since; ago (indicates the time since something occurred)

   Terminei a faculdade há um mês.

   It has been one month since I’ve finished college.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:haver.

• (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

• (to exist): inexistir

haver m (plural haveres)

1. outstanding debt

• dívida

• avair (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
• adaver, aver, ver (Sutsilvan)

From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“have, hold, possess”).

haver

1. (Sursilvan) to have

From Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”).

haver (uncountable)

1. oats

• havermeal (“oatmeal, half-ground meal”)
• haverpoke (“horse's nosebag”)

haver (third-person singular present havers, present participle haverin, past havert, past participle havert)

1. Alternative form of haiver

haver

1. has, have; present tense of hava., an older form of har