hav

hav (third-person singular simple present has, present participle having, simple past and past participle had)

1. Informal spelling of have.
   • 1895 May 18, The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, New York, N.Y., page 312, column 1:

     I giv full credit, I hope, to the earnest persons who stand ready to make liberal donations toward the founding of schools from which the Bible and religious exercises shall be forever excluded. […] I hav noticed in the parts of our country I hav visited that children seem to be better provided with instruction than with almost anything else. […] The founding of separate and exclusiv institutions of learning must of course make his burden heavier, and we would also be open to the charge, which we make against the Catholics, of being enemies of the public schools.

May be used by advocates of English spelling reform.

• Váh, vah

• hâv (Standard Cornish)

From Old Cornish haf, from Proto-Brythonic *haβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *samos, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-. Compare Welsh haf.

hav m (plural havow or havyow)

1. (Standard Written Form) summer

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, cognate with Swedish hav, German Haff (“bay”) (from Low German).

• IPA^(key): /haw/, [ˈhɑw]

hav n (singular definite havet, plural indefinite have)

1. sea, ocean (large body of salt water)
2. (figurative) multitude, large amount

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ha/, [ˈha]

hav

1. imperative of have

• IPA^(key): /hɛaːv/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːv

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

hav n (genitive singular havs, plural høv)

1. sea, ocean between two lands

• sjógvur (all sea on Earth, big waves)

From the verb hevja.

hav n (genitive singular havs, plural høv)

1. lifting stone

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hav

1. imperative singular of hava

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

hav n (definite singular havet, indefinite plural hav, definite plural hava or havene)

1. ocean or sea (often incorporated into the proper names of seas and oceans with the suffix -havet)

• “hav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːʋ/

hav n (definite singular havet, indefinite plural hav, definite plural hava, genitive definite singular havsens, genitive indefinite singular havs)

1. ocean or sea (see note above)

   Bestefaren min sigla på dei sju hav. ― My grandfather sailed the seven seas.

• “hav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːv/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːv

From Old Swedish haf, from Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-.

• haf (obsolete since 1906)

hav n

1. sea, ocean

   Synonyms: ocean, saltsjö, sjö

   segla på havet

   sail on the sea

   I ett hav finns det mycket vatten

   In an ocean, there is a lot of water

   • 1970, “Kalle Teodor”, Astrid Lindgren (lyrics), Georg Riedel (music)‎^[1]:

     Men en stormnatt kan du höra nån som ropar: Hej hå! Ifrån havets djup det kommer, och det låter så: Hej hå! Hej hå!

     But on a stormy night you can hear someone calling: Hey ho! From the ocean depths ["the sea's depth(s)" – intuitively "depth," though the plural is identical – singular is idiomatic in "dras ner i djupet" (be pulled into the depths [depth]), for example] it comes, and it sounds like that: Hey ho! Hey ho! [Or "and it sounds like so," but that is an idiomatic way of saying "and it sounds like that," whereas "and it sounds like this" would normally be put as "och det låter så här." The official lyrics have a colon.]

   • 1990, Sven-Ingvars, David Alexandre Winter, “Sommar och sol [Summer and sun]”‎^[2]:

     Sommar, sommar och sol. Havet och vinden, och doft av kaprifol. Sommar, sommar och sol. En himmel så blå som viol.

     Summer, summer and sun. The sea and the wind, and scent of honeysuckle. Summer, summer and sun. A sky as blue as violet [flower].

• ocean

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hav

1. imperative of hava

• hav in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hav in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hav in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• hav in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /hav/

hav

1. The sound a dog makes, bark