Proto-Basque: *e=uka-n
Meaning: 1 to have (general) 2 to have, possess, keep 3 having
Araban: eukaite 3
Bizkaian: euki 2
High Navarrese: ukan 1
Low Navarrese: ukhan, ukan, (arc) ukhen 1
Lapurdian: ukhan 1
Zuberoan: ǘkhen 1
Roncalese: ékun 1
Comments: Michelena (1961: 83) cites {eukaite}, a verbal noun from the extinct Araban dialect. The hypothetical *e=du-n 'to have' provides finite forms in all dialects, universally for the auxiliary, and in constructing periphrastic verbs, e.g. (c) hartu dut 'I took it' (earlier today) or 'I have taken it', and in northern ('French') dialects *-du- also supplies finite forms of the verb of possession 'to have'.
