La Habra

The story

1. French · derived fromhavre
2. Spanish · borrowed fromabra“glade, inlet”
3. English todayLa Habra

Borrowed from the definite form of Spanish abra (“glade, inlet”), itself a borrowing from French havre. Doublet of haven. The initial "silent" h- is unetymological, likely interpreted from other Spanish words and toponyms common to the American Southwest (e.g., hasta, hombre, etc.). Fully cognate with French Le Havre, a city in Normandy.

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