Noun: haver
| Singular | haver |
| Plural | havers; haverim |
Sample Sentences
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From porridge, the liquid preparation of oats, we are led almost automatically to the haver-cake, which was a great improvement on the former, for it could be carried about, and kept for an indefinite time in sound and wholesome condition. [1902, Charles Roeder, “Notes on food and drink in Lancashire and other Northern Counties”, in Transactions of Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, page 44:]
Nouns inflected like haver
saddik,
sopher,
siddur,
shohet,
shabbos goy,
badchan,
badkhan,
badkhon,
zaddik,
darshan,
sechach,
Amora,
shochat,
shadkan,
Hasid,
Tanna,
hekhsher,
chazzen,
chazzan,
Chabadnik, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”). Cognate with Dutch haver (“oats”) and German Hafer (“oat”). See: Middle English Nouns '
haver', Old Norse Nouns '
hafri', Dutch Nouns '
haver', German Nouns '
Hafer'.
Verbs referencing "haver"
Danish Nouns
havre.