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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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habber
verb
to eat
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ha
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haben
,
haen
etymology:
possibly a development from Romany
noun habben, haben
‘food, victuals’; ‘bread or corn’; attested by
JS
note:
Grellmann (1787) collected the form
Chabben
‘to eat’ from Continental gipsies.