hallef

Etymology
From, northern variant of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) half

Usage notes

 * For the inflected stem, the spellings and  are both commonly found in edited texts. This is because there is a conflict between two basic principles of Luxembourgish spelling, namely (1.) that doubled consonants are not simplified in inflections, and (2.) that the spelling should be as close to the German cognate as the pronunciation allows. The Luxemburger Wörterbuch (1962) used, but it seems that the more standard spelling is now.
 * There is also a third inflected stem with a long, but this is now archaic.