have

Meanings

To possess, own.
To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
To experience, go through, undergo.
To be afflicted with, suffer from.
See have to.
To give birth to.
To obtain.
To engage in sexual intercourse with.
To accept as a romantic partner.
To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
To cause to be.
To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
To depict as being.
To defeat in a fight; take.
To inflict punishment or retribution on.
To be able to speak (a language).
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
To trick, to deceive.
To allow; to tolerate.
To believe, buy, be taken in by.
To host someone; to take in as a guest.
To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
To make an observation of (a bird species).

From Middle English haven, from Old English hafian, habban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, durative of *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, present tense of *keh₂p-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian hääbe ("to have"), West Frisian hawwe ("to have"), Dutch hebben ("to have"), Afrikaans hê ("to have"), Low German hebben, hewwen, German haben ("to have"), Danish have ("to have"), Swedish hava ("to have"), Norwegian Nynorsk ha ("to have"), Icelandic hafa ("to have"), Albanian kap ("I grab, catch, grip"), Latin capiō ("take"), Russian хапать ("to seize"). More at heave.
Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin habeō is not etymologically related to English have), Proto-Indo-European probably lacked the have structure. Instead, the third person forms of be were used, with the possessor in dative case, compare Latin mihi est / sunt, literally to me is / are.
From have on.

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