i avoir
Old French
Alternative forms
- i aveir
- i aver
- i avoyr
Etymology
From Latin hīc (“here”) and habēre (“to have”).
Verb
i avoir
- (impersonal) there be
- 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
- Laissiés les mors, n'i a nul recouvrier.
- Leave the dead, there are none to be recovered.
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Conjugation
- see avoir
Descendants
- French: y avoir