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Is aver a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word aver is a Scrabble US word. The word aver is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word aver is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

AVER,RAVE,VARE,VERA,

3-letter words (8 found)

ARE,AVE,EAR,ERA,RAV,REV,VAE,VAR,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from aver according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of aver

aver vaer aevr eavr vear evar avre vare arve rave vrae rvae aerv earv arev raev erav reav vera evra vrea rvea erva reva

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Definitions and meaning of aver

aver

Etymology 1

From Middle English averren, from Old French averer, from Early Medieval Latin advērō, a verb derived from Latin vērus (“true”). Compare Modern French avérer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈvɜː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈvɝ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Verb

aver (third-person singular simple present avers, present participle averring or (obsolete) avering, simple past and past participle averred or (obsolete) avered)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (assert the truth): swear
Derived terms
  • averrable
  • averred (adjective)
  • averrer
Related terms
  • averment
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aver, avere (“workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession”) [and other forms], and then either:

  • from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin habēre, the present active infinitive of habeō (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”); or
  • from Old English eafor (“workhorse; tenant’s obligation to transport goods”), further etymology uncertain.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈeɪvə/
    • Homophone: Ava
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈeɪvɚ/

Noun

aver (plural avers)

  1. (British, dialectal, archaic) A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag.

References

Anagrams

  • AVRE, Rave, Vera, evar, rave, vare, vera

Italian

Alternative forms

  • haver (obsolete spelling)

Verb

aver (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of avere

Anagrams

  • vera

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish aver, from Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“hold, have”).

Verb

aver (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אביר)

  1. to have

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin habēre, the present active infinitive of habeō (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”). Cognate with Middle French avoir, Norman aver, aveir.

Noun

aver (plural avers)

  1. Belongings, possessions, property, wealth.

References

Norman

Alternative forms

  • aveir (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French aveir, archaic form of avoir, from Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“have, hold, possess”).

Verb

aver

  1. (Jersey, alternative form in Guernsey) to have

Conjugation

Derived terms

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan aver, haver, from Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). Cognate with French avoir, Italian avere, Portuguese haver, Romanian avea, avere, and Sardinian (Campidanese airi, Logudorese àere), Spanish haber, and English aver (borrowed via Old French).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbe/

Verb

aver

  1. to have; to possess
    Synonym: possedir
  2. (auxiliary) to have

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • aver luòc

Old French

Verb

aver

  1. Alternative form of avoir

Noun

aver oblique singular, m (oblique plural avers, nominative singular avers, nominative plural aver)

  1. Alternative form of avoir

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • haver (latinized form)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin habēre (“to have, to hold, to possess”). Cognate with Old Spanish and Old Occitan aver, Old French aveir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈβeɾ/

Verb

aver

  1. to have
  2. to exist

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Galician: haber
  • Portuguese: haver

Further reading

  • Universo Cantigas - "aver1"

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • haver

Etymology

From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). Cognate with Old French avoir, aver, aveir, avoyr, Old Sardinian avere, and Old Spanish aver.

Verb

aver

  1. to have; to possess

Descendants

  • Occitan: aver

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). Cognate with Old French avoir, aver, aveir, avoyr, and Old Occitan aver, haver.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈβeɾ/

Verb

aver

  1. to have

Descendants

  • Ladino:
    Hebrew: אביר
    Latin: aver
  • Spanish: haber

Portuguese

Verb

aver (first-person singular present indicative ei, past participle avido)

  1. Obsolete spelling of haver

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

aver m (plural averes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of haver

Romani

Alternative forms

  • kaver, vaver

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀯𑀭 (avara), from Sanskrit अपर (apara).

Adjective

aver

  1. other

References

  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ápara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 20
  • Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “avér”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “aver B-ćham: -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 68

Spanish

Verb

aver

  1. Obsolete spelling of haber

Venetian

Alternative forms

  • gaver

Etymology

From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō.

Verb

aver

  1. (transitive) to have
  2. (transitive) to possess

Conjugation

  • Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

References

  • Silvano Belloni (2009) Grammatica Veneta [Venetian Grammar]‎[3] (in Italian), Esedra Editrice, →ISBN, page 75

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