From Middle English inhabitantes and inhabitaunt, from Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, present participle of inhabitō, from in- + habitō (frequentative of habeō, from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- ("to seize, take, hold, have").
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