Re: R: Re: New to the list

Steg Belsky wrote:
> In Spanish, _hay_
> in non-present tense turns into singular forms of _haber_ "to have" (as
> in "to have eaten", not "to have a horse"), which might be where _hay_
> comes from in the first place.
Yup.  Hay < Ha y, where <y> is derived from, IIRC, Latin <ibi>.  It is,
I believe, cognate to the <y> in French <il y a>