habban

hab +‎ -ban

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒbːɒn]
• Hyphenation: hab‧ban

habban

1. inessive singular of hab

From Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“take, seize”).

Cognate with Old Frisian hebba, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German habēn, Old Norse hafa, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban), Latin capere, Old Irish cacht, Albanian kap (“grip”), Russian ха́пать (xápatʹ), Lithuanian kàpteleti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑb.bɑn/, [ˈhɑb.bɑn]

habban

1. to have, possess
2. (auxiliary) have (used with a participle to express the perfect tense)
   • early 12th century, the Peterborough Chronicle

     Þās þing wē habbaþ be him ġewriten.

     We have written these things about him.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 42:36

     Þā cwæþ Iācōb heora fæder, "Bearnlēasne ġē habbaþ mē ġedōnne. Næbbe iċ Iōsēp and Simeon is on bendum; nū ġē nimaþ Beniamin æt mē."

     Then Jacob, their father, said, "You have made me childless. I don't have Joseph and Simeon is in chains; now you're taking Benjamin from me."

3. (catenative) have to (+ to-infinitive)
   • The Gospel of St. Luke

     Iċ hæbbe þē tō secgenne sum ðing

     I have to say something to you.

• As an auxiliary, habban was generally used with transitive verbs, while wesan or bēon were generally used with intransitive verbs for the perfect tenses with past participle of the verb in question.

• hebban
• hæft
• hefiġ

• Middle English: haven, have, haav, haf, hafe, haben, habben, heven, hawe; han, haan, ha
  • English: have (-'ve, -a)
  • Scots: hae, ha, hiv, have, hawe (-a)
  • Yola: ha, have

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “habban”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.