Origin and history of I've

"They'll be as common as gunnysacks in Oakland in another year, I've been told....

Altogether, she is the smartest wire-walker I've seen for many a day....

I've always been afraid I was going to tap the world on the shoulder for 20 years, and when it finally turned around I was...

The cabbie replies, "Pal, that's the first time I've ever been asked that in the passive pluperfect subjunctive."...

"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."...

probably from some military story similar to the old battlefield joke: Irish soldier (shouting from within the brush): I've...

"I've seen him, father," said Nelly with a consequential air, "the day I was up at Fairfield Court;  he came into Pug's...

"act of flowing or issuing from an origin; emission; radiation; what issues, flows, or is given out from any substance or body;" 1560s, from Late Latin emanationem (nominative emanatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin emanare "flow out, spring out of," figurati

c. 1300, parlement, "consultation; formal conference, assembly," from Old French parlement (11c.), originally "a speaking, talk," from parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)); the spelling was altered c. 1400 to conform with Medieval Latin parliamentum. Anglo-Latin parliamentum is at

1530s, "pure, unmixed, unadulterated;" also "free from pretense or falsehood," from French sincere (16c.), from Latin sincerus, of things, "whole, clean, pure, uninjured, unmixed," figuratively "sound, genuine, pure, true, candid, truthful" (unadulterated by deceit), a word of un