An archaic or dialectal form meaning to have or own; variant of 'avoir' (to have in French).
From Old French avoir, from Latin habere ('to have'). This English adoption preserves traces of the Norman French legal vocabulary that deeply influenced English after 1066, particularly in property and ownership contexts.
After the Norman Conquest, French-speaking judges brought their vocabulary into English courts—'avour' is a ghostly remnant of when French lawyers dominated English legal language. It's a linguistic fossil showing how conquest reshapes vocabulary.
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