hav

hav (third-person singular simple present has, present participle having, simple past and past participle had)

1. Informal spelling of have.
   • 1895 May 18, The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, New York, N.Y., page 312, column 1:

     I giv full credit, I hope, to the earnest persons who stand ready to make liberal donations toward the founding of schools from which the Bible and religious exercises shall be forever excluded. […] I hav noticed in the parts of our country I hav visited that children seem to be better provided with instruction than with almost anything else. […] The founding of separate and exclusiv institutions of learning must of course make his burden heavier, and we would also be open to the charge, which we make against the Catholics, of being enemies of the public schools.

May be used by advocates of English spelling reform.

• Váh, vah

• hâv (Standard Cornish)

From Old Cornish haf, from Proto-Brythonic *haβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *samos, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-. Compare Welsh haf.

hav m (plural havow or havyow)

1. (Standard Written Form) summer

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, cognate with Swedish hav, German Haff (“bay”) (from Low German).

• IPA^(key): /haw/, [ˈhɑw]

hav n (singular definite havet, plural indefinite have)

1. sea, ocean (large body of salt water)
2. (figurative) multitude, large amount

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ha/, [ˈha]

hav

1. imperative of have

• IPA^(key): /hɛaːv/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːv

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

hav n (genitive singular havs, plural høv)

1. sea, ocean between two lands

• sjógvur (all sea on Earth, big waves)

From the verb hevja.

hav n (genitive singular havs, plural høv)

1. lifting stone

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hav

1. imperative singular of hava

• hav tað gott (“goodbye”, literally “have it well”)

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

hav n (definite singular havet, indefinite plural hav, definite plural hava or havene)

1. ocean or sea (often incorporated into the proper names of seas and oceans with the suffix -havet)

• “hav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːʋ/

hav n (definite singular havet, indefinite plural hav, definite plural hava, genitive definite singular havsens, genitive indefinite singular havs)

1. ocean or sea (see note above)

   Bestefaren min sigla på dei sju hav. ― My grandfather sailed the seven seas.

• “hav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːv/

• Audio:

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From Old Swedish haf, in turn inherited from Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

• haf (obsolete since 1906)

hav n

1. a sea, an ocean

   Synonyms: ocean, saltsjö, sjö

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hav

1. imperative of hava

• hav in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /hav/

hav

1. The sound a dog makes, bark