i avoir
Old French
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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
Verb
- (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.
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Conjugation
- see avoir
Descendants
- French: y avoir
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