i avoir

Old French
Excerpt from the Oxford manuscript of The Song of Roland. The final five words are i ad plus de mil (“there are more than a thousand”).

Alternative forms
  • i aver
  • i avoyr

Etymology

From Latin hīc (“here”) and habēre (“to have”).

Verb

i avoir

  1. (impersonal) there be
    • 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
      Laissiés les mors, n'i a nul recouvrier.
      Leave the dead, there are none to be recovered.

Conjugation

Descendants
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