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2024
i_avoir
i avoir
Old French
Excerpt from the Oxford manuscript of
The Song of Roland
. The final five words are
i ad
plus
de
mil
(
“
there are more than a thousand
”
)
.
Alternative forms
i aveir
i aver
i avoyr
Verb
i
avoir
(
impersonal
)
there be
12
th
Century
,
Unknown,
Raoul de Cambrai
:
Laissiés les mors, n'
i a
nul recouvrier.
Leave the dead,
there are
none to be recovered.
Conjugation
see
avoir
Descendants
French:
y avoir
Etymology
From
Latin
hīc
(
“
here
”
)
and
habēre
(
“
to have
”
)
.
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