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[Middle English avoir de pois, commodities sold by weight, alteration of Old French aveir de peis, goods of weight, aveir, avoir, to have (from Latin habēre; see able), + de, of (from Latin dē, from; see de–), + peis, pois, weight (from Vulgar Latin* pēsum) (from Latin pēnsum past participle of pendere, to hang; see (s)pen-).]
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