“Hath” is a form of
have
/ˈhæv/ verb, noun
Forms has having had hast hadst hath haveing haves 've haue hae hav
- verb (transitive) To possess, own. “I have a house and a car.”
- verb (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal. “Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!”
- verb (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature. “The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.”
- verb (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. “I have two sisters.”
- verb (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink). “I have breakfast at six o'clock.”
- verb (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity). “Can I have a look at that?”
- verb (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in. “What class do you have right now? I have English.”
- verb (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo. “We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.”
- noun (idiomatic, usually contrastive) A wealthy or privileged person.
- noun (idiomatic, uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
- noun (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. “They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.”
- noun (dialect) A hawthorn.
Synonyms
have one's way with sleep with take rich person wealthy person have got hold feature experience receive get own possess let consume ingest take in throw make give induce stimulate cause accept suffer sustain give birth deliver bear birth
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, an imperfective formation to the root *kap- (“to take, seize, catch”). Related to heave.
Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin habeō is not etymologically related to English have), Proto-Indo-European probably lacked the have structure. Instead, the third person forms of be were used, with the possessor in dative case, compare Latin mihi est / sunt, literally to me is / are.
The nonstandard etymology 1, verb sense 34 (“to be (an age)”) is a semantic loan from other languages’ term for “to possess, own”, such as French avoir, Polish mieć, and Spanish tener.
Cognate with Scots hae (“to have”), North Frisian haa, heewe (“to have”), Saterland Frisian häbe, hääbe (“to have”), West Frisian hawwe (“to have”), Afrikaans hê (“to have”), Alemannic German haa, heen, hoh, hä, häbä, hè (“to have”), Bavarian hobm, hobn, hoom, håbn (“to have”), Cimbrian haban, hen, håm (“to have”), Dutch and Low German hebben (“to have”), German haben (“to have”), Limburgish haane, höbbe (“to have”), Luxembourgish hunn (“to have”), Mòcheno hom (“to have”), Vilamovian hon (“to have”), Yiddish האָבן (hobn, “to have”), Danish have (“to have”), Elfdalian åvå (“to have”), Faroese hava (“to have”), Icelandic hafa (“to have”), Norwegian Bokmål ha (“to have”), Norwegian Nynorsk ha, hava, have, hå (“to have”), Swedish ha, hafva, hava (“to have”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban, “to have”), Albanian kap (“to grab, catch, grip”), Latin capiō (“take”, verb), Russian хапать (xapatʹ, “to seize”).
From have on (“to deceive”).
Variant of haw.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.
- verb To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. Shak.
Etymology [OE. haven, habben, AS. habben (imperf. hæfde, p. p. gehæfd); akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. avoir. Cf. Able, Avoirdupois, Binnacle, Habit.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “have”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details