Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To reduce to half the original amount. · To divide into two halves. · To make up half of. · To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”). Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).
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- Inherited-form mentionhalvenenm
- Inherited-form mentionhilfanang
- Inherited-form mention*halbijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*halbijanągem-pro · to halve
- Derivation mention*halbazgem-pro · half
- Cognate mentionhalvendum · to halve
- Cognate mentionhalbengmh
- Cognate mentionheltefy · to halve
- Cognate mentionhalverennl · to halve
- Cognate mentionhalbierende · to halve
- Cognate mentionhalvereda · to halve
- Cognate mentionhalverasv · to halve
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