different between haven vs havenless
haven
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)
- A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
- (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
- (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)
- To put into, or provide with a haven.
Translations
Anagrams
- heav'n, nevah
Danish
Noun
haven c
- 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)
- harbour
- port
Derived terms
- port types
Descendants
- Afrikaans: hawe
- ? Papiamentu: haf
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
haven
- 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
- (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
- to own (to have ownership of):
- to possess (an abstraction; a quality)
- to include (as a part, ingredient, or feature).
- to hold; to have at disposal
- to get, acquire, or obtain:
- to take (in); to be given
- to have (a child); to give birth
- to do; to perform (an action):
- (with preposition) to take (away)
- to have (done); to cause to (do, be)
- to be obliged to do; to be scheduled to do.
- (auxillary) Denotes completion; forms the perfect tense.
- to keep; to maintain (in a condition)
- to have (in a certain relationship)
- to consider; to look upon
- 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
- 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)
- harbour
- haven, refuge
Derived terms
- havenhaad
Further reading
- “haven (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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havenless
English
Etymology
From Middle English havenles, equivalent to haven +? -less.
Adjective
havenless (not comparable)
- Without a haven.
havenless From the web:
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