healf
- numeral
- adjective
- adverb
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Mé næs be healfan ðǽle ðín mǽrþ gecýdd
thy greatness was not half told me,
- Homl. Th. ii. 584, 23.
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Sié be healfum ðæm ðonne sió bót
let the fine then be half that,
- L. Alf. pol 11; Th. i. 68, 18: 39; Th. i. 88, 2: L. M. 2, 65; Lchdm.
ii. 292, 17.
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Gé ðǽr búgiaþ on ðam fíftan dǽle healfum londes and unlondes
ye there dwell in the half of the fifth part [in the tenth part, cf. l. 25] of land and not-land,
- Bt. 18, 1; Fox 62, 23.
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Heó mid ðæm healfan dǽle beforan ðæm cyninge farende wæs swelce heó fleónde wǽre
with half the army she was going before the king as if she were fleeing,
- Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 76, 27.
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Healfne sealde ðæm þearfan and mid healfum hine sylfne besweóp
he gave half [his cloak] to the poor man and wrapped himself up with half of it,
- Blickl. Homl. 215, 7.
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Ðeáh ðú wylle healf míne ríce
licet demedium regni mei,
- Mk. Skt. 6, 23: Lk. Skt. 19, 8.
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Habban hí ðone brýce healfne and healfne ða munecas
let them have half the usufruct, and the monk's half,
- Chart. Th. 547, 19.
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Heó healfne forcearf ðone sweoran him
she half cut through his neck,
- Judth. 10; Thw. 23, 4; Jud. 105.
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Sele ðonne ðæt healf tó drincanne
then give half of it to drink,
- L. M. 2, 2; Lchdm. ii. 180, 23.
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Hie wǽron simle healfe æt hám healfe úte
always half of them were at home and half out,
- Chr. 894; Erl. 90, 17: Ors. 2, 6; Swt. 86, 25.
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Ic wille ðæt man frigæ hæalue míne men
I desire that half my men should be freed,
- Chart. Th. 522, 5.
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Æfter óðer healf hund daga
after a hundred and fifty days,
- Gen. 8, 3.
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He heóld ðæt ríce óðrum healfum læs ðe xxx wintra
he reigned twenty-eight years and a half,
- Chr. 901; Erl. 96, 24.
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Hit biþ óðres healfes fótes gemet bufan ðæm heáfde
it is a foot and a half above the head,
- Shrn. 69, 2.
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Se bát wæs geworht of þriddan healfre hýde
the boat was made of two and a half hides,
- Chr. 891; Erl. 88, 9.
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Ic him sylle vii æcras feórþe helfne on ánum stede and feórþe halfne an óðrum stede
I give him seven acres, three and a half in one place and three and a half in another,
- Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 263, 12-15.
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Nán rén ne com ofer eorþan feórþan healfangeáre
no rain came upon the earth for three years and a half,
- Lchdm. iii. 276, 19.
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Ðæt wæs ehtoþe healf híd
that was seven hides and a half,
- Chart. Th. 550, 12.
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Seofon and twentigoþan healfes fótes twenty-six feet and a half long, Lchdm. iii. 218, 4, 12, 16, 19. [Goth. halbs: O. Sax. half: O. Frs. half: Icel. hálfr: O. H. Ger. halb: O. Frs. has the same use of half with the ordinals, other, thredda, fiarda, etc., half;
so O. H. Ger. has
anðar halb, dritde halp, Grff. iv. 890: so Ger. In Icel. the ordinal is placed after hálfr, hálfr annarr, etc.]
Bosworth, Joseph. “healf.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18403.
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