habia

See also: Habia and había

Basque

Alternative forms

  • kabia (proscribed)

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *kabia, from Latin cavea (“cavity, den, enclosure, cage”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /habia/ [ha.β̞i.a]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /abia/ [a.β̞i.a]
  • Rhymes: -ia, -a
  • Hyphenation: ha‧bi‧a

Noun

habia inan

  1. nest

Declension

Declension of habia (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive habia habia habiak
ergative habiak habiak habiek
dative habiari habiari habiei
genitive habiaren habiaren habien
comitative habiarekin habiarekin habiekin
causative habiarengatik habiarengatik habiengatik
benefactive habiarentzat habiarentzat habientzat
instrumental habiaz habiaz habiez
inessive habiatan habian habietan
locative habiatako habiako habietako
allative habiatara habiara habietara
terminative habiataraino habiaraino habietaraino
directive habiatarantz habiarantz habietarantz
destinative habiatarako habiarako habietarako
ablative habiatatik habiatik habietatik
partitive habiarik — —
prolative habiatzat — —

Derived terms

  • habia egin (“to nest”)

References

  1. ^ R. L. Trask (2008) “habia”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 75

Further reading

  • “habia”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “habia”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Spanish

Verb

habia

  1. misspelling of había
  2. obsolete spelling of había
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