Etymology

behaver

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Today it means: Someone or something that behaves. Full definition →

English behave ← Middle English behaven ← Old English behabban
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
  5. Proto-Germanic*bi
  6. Proto-Germanic*bi-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*bi-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  9. Proto-Germanic*habjaną
  10. Proto-West Germanic*habbjan
  11. Proto-West Germanic*bihabbjan
  12. Old Englishbehabban
  13. Middle Englishbehaven
  14. Englishbehave
  15. English todaybehaver

From behave + -er.

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