Where does “hæfde” come from?

hæfde (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic habd-.

hæfde (Old English): inflection of habban: ## first/third-person...

Definitions

  1. inflection of habban: ## first/third-person...

Ancestry of “hæfde”, step by step

hæfde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic habd-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanichabd-—

via Proto-West Germanic habd-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanichabd-—

Words derived from “hæfde”

Every word from Proto-Germanic habd- →