Etymology

heaver

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Today it means: One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight. Full definition →

English heave ← Middle English heven ← Old English hebban
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
  3. Proto-Germanic*habjaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*habbjan
  5. Old Englishhebban
  6. Middle Englishheven
  7. Englishheave
  8. English todayheaver

From heave + -er.

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