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healf

  • numeral
  • adjective
  • adverb
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Grammar
healf, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§64; §262; §294;
HALF
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  • Mé næs be healfan ðǽle ðín mǽrþ gecýdd

    thy greatness was not half told me,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 584, 23
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • Ðeáh ðú wylle healf míne ríce

    licet demedium regni mei,

    • Mk. Skt. 6, 23
    • :
    • Lk. Skt. 19, 8
    • .
  • Habban hí ðone brýce healfne and healfne ða munecas

    let them have half the usufruct, and the monk's half,

    • Chart. Th. 547, 19
    • .
  • Heó healfne forcearf ðone sweoran him

    she half cut through his neck,

    • Judth. 10
    • ;
    • Thw. 23, 4
    • ;
    • Jud. 105
    • .
  • Sele ðonne ðæt healf tó drincanne

    then give half of it to drink,

    • L. M. 2, 2
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 180, 23
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • Ic wille ðæt man frigæ hæalue míne men

    I desire that half my men should be freed,

    • Chart. Th. 522, 5
    • .
  • Æfter óðer healf hund daga

    after a hundred and fifty days,

    • Gen. 8, 3
    • .
  • He heóld ðæt ríce óðrum healfum læs ðe xxx wintra

    he reigned twenty-eight years and a half,

    • Chr. 901
    • ;
    • Erl. 96, 24
    • .
  • Hit biþ óðres healfes fótes gemet bufan ðæm heáfde

    it is a foot and a half above the head,

    • Shrn. 69, 2
    • .
  • Se bát wæs geworht of þriddan healfre hýde

    the boat was made of two and a half hides,

    • Chr. 891
    • ;
    • Erl. 88, 9
    • .
  • 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
    • .
  • Ðæt wæs ehtoþe healf híd

    that was seven hides and a half,

    • Chart. Th. 550, 12
    • .
  • Seofon and twentigoþan healfes fótes

    twenty-six feet and a half long,

    • Lchdm. iii. 218, 4, 12, 16, 19
    • .
Etymology
[
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, fjarda, 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.]
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  • healf, num.; adj.; adv.