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ghabh-

PIE base ‘to give or receive’, also *ghəbh-. Compare *kap- ‘to grasp’, PIE root of have and concept.

Other derivatives include give, able, malady, prohibit, inhibit, duty, debt, due, duty, cohabit, habit, and endeavour.

[Pokorny *ghabh- ‘to grab, take’, pp. 407–409.]

habitat

In a YouTube video on 19th December 2022, Guy McPherson quoted a peer-reviewed paper from 1997 that sought a standard terminology of the habitat concept. The scholars defined habitat as ‘the resources and conditions present in an area that produce occupancy including survival and reproduction by a given organism’. Most significantly “Habitat is organism specific.”