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

Etymology

From Latin hīc (“here”) and habēre (“to have”).

Verb

(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

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