English
there be
Of the specified thing: to exist, physically or abstractly.
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Origin
The expletive there, from Old English þær, to fill the first position in English's historic V2 word order.
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Lineage
- inheritedOld Englishþǣr “there”
- inheritedOld Englishabūtan