different between aven vs haven

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aven.

Noun

aven (plural avens)

1. A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.
2. A pothole.

See also

• domepit

References

• Northern Caves, Vols 1-5. Dalesman Publishing, UK. passim

Anagrams

• Evan, Nave, Neva, Vena, nave, neva, vane

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton avon, from Proto-Brythonic *a?on (“river”).

Alternative forms

• avon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ven/

Noun

aven f (plural avenioù)

1. (archaic) river

French

Etymology

From Occitan avenc, from Gaulish *abon? (“river”), from Proto-Celtic *ab? (“river”). Compare Breton aven, avon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v?n/

Noun

aven m (plural avens)

1. (geology, caving) pit cave, pit (natural cave with predominantly vertical shafts)

   Synonyms: gouffre, igue

2. (geology) sinkhole (US), swallow hole (UK)

Further reading

• aven on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “aven” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English oven.

Noun

aven

1. oven

English

Etymology

From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habn?, *haban? (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn), from Proto-Germanic *hab? (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, uplift, elevation”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to lift, heave”)), or from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)). Doublet of abra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?v?n/
• Rhymes: -e?v?n

Noun

haven (plural havens)

1. A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
2. (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
3. (by extension) A peaceful place.

Synonyms

• refuge
• sanctuary
• zoar

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

haven (third-person singular simple present havens, present participle havening, simple past and past participle havened)

1. To put into, or provide with a haven.

Translations

Anagrams

• heav'n, nevah

Danish

Noun

haven c

1. definite singular of have

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?v?(n)/
• Hyphenation: ha?ven
• Rhymes: -a?v?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch havene, from Old Dutch *havana, from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habn?, *haban?.

Noun

haven f (plural havens, diminutive haventje n)

1. harbour
2. port

Derived terms

- port types

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hawe
• ? Papiamentu: haf

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

haven

1. Plural form of have.

Finnish

Alternative forms

• hapene (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *haben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??en/, [?h??e?n]
• Rhymes: -??en
• Syllabification: ha?ven

Noun

haven

1. (dialectal) (single) hair

   Synonyms: hapsi, hius

Declension

Anagrams

• ahven

Middle English

Alternative forms

• have, haav, haf, hafe, haben, habben, heven, hawe
• (contracted) han, haan, ha

Etymology

From Old English habban, hafian, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?v?n/, /?hav?n/, /?hab?n/
• (contracted) IPA^(key): /ha?n/

Verb

haven

2. to own (to have ownership of):
   1. to possess (an abstraction; a quality)
   2. to include (as a part, ingredient, or feature).
   3. to hold; to have at disposal
3. to get, acquire, or obtain:
   1. to take (in); to be given
   2. to have (a child); to give birth
4. to do; to perform (an action):
   1. (with preposition) to take (away)
   2. to have (done); to cause to (do, be)
   3. to be obliged to do; to be scheduled to do.
5. (auxillary) Denotes completion; forms the perfect tense.
6. to keep; to maintain (in a condition)
7. to have (in a certain relationship)
8. to consider; to look upon
9. to experience; to undergo

Usage notes

• As in Modern English, haven may be used elliptically in auxiliary constructions if the main verb is implicit.
• The perfect progressive construction (modern have been + present) is known in Middle English, though rare and late.
• Some intransitive verbs may form the perfect with ben rather than haven.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: have (-'ve, -a)
• Scots: hae, ha, hiv, have, hawe (-a)

References

• “h??ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Noun

haven

1. definite plural of hav

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *hafen, *haven, from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habn?.

Noun

haven c (plural havens, diminutive haventsje)

1. harbour
2. haven, refuge

Derived terms

• havenhaad

Further reading

• “haven (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011