Where does “haveri” come from?
haveri (Finnish) comes from Ido havar, from Esperanto havi, from English have, from English -s, from English ’s, from English Kingstown, from English town, from Middle English toun — on, onto.
haveri (Finnish): average, accident; accident
Definitions
- average, accident; accident
Ancestry of “haveri”, step by step
haveri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ido havar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ido | havar | to have |
| 2 | Esperanto | havi | to have |
| 3 | English | have | To possess, own; To hold, as something at... |
| 4 | English | -s | Used to form regular plurals of nouns; Used to... |
| 5 | English | ’s | — |
| 6 | English | Kingstown | OS grid ref NY3959 |
| 7 | English | town | A settlement; an area with residential districts,... |
| 8 | Middle English | toun | town |
| 9 | Middle English | ende | The end or finishing of a thing; the terminal... |
| 10 | Old English | ende | end, limit, border, corner |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | andi | in addition, furthermore, and |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énti | opposite; near; in front |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énts | forehead; front |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ent- | face; forehead; front |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂en- | on, onto |
via Swedish haveri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | haveri | an accident (especially of shipping and aircraft disasters, that require investigation) |
| 2 | German | Havarie | accident, emergency (most often of a ship); shipwreck |
| 3 | Middle Low German | haverye | — |
| 4 | Dutch | haverij | — |
| 5 | Italian | avaria | damage; breakdown, failure; inflection of... |
| 6 | Arabic | عوارية | damage in transit, average, the occurrence of... |
| 7 | Arabic | عَوَار | fault, blemish, defect, flaw |
| 8 | Arabic | عَوِرَ | to lose an eye |