from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (modern French avoir), from aveir, avoir, from Latin habēre, the present active infinitive of habeō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- ("to grab, take"); or
from Old English eafor, further etymology uncertain.
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