Etymology

behoven

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Old English behofian
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombehofian
  2. English todaybehoven

From Middle English, from Old English behofian.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbehofian all →

behoovebyhove

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.