healf

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) side
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Easter Sunday"
 * "ang"

- Sē enġel sæt on þā swīðran healfe þǣre byrġene.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Sċotland is on ǣlċe healfe ymbfangen mid gārseċġe.


 * 1) * translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Þǣr wǣron swā miċele manslihtas on ǣġðre healfe þæt hīe man æt nīehstan bebyrġan ne meahte.


 * 1) half
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
 * "ang"

- On þā healfe þe sēo sunne sċīnþ þǣr biþ dæġ, and on þā healfe þe hēo ne sċīnþ þǣr biþ niht.

Etymology 2
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Adjective

 * 1) half
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Passion of the Same"
 * "ang"

- Sē cyning behēt þām apostole healf his rīċe.


 * 1) * c. 990, , Luke 19:8
 * "ang"

- Iċ selle þearfum healfe mīne ǣhta, and ġif iċ ǣniġne berēafode, ic hit be fēowerfealdum āġiefe.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
 * "ang"

- And þā æfter him Ēadrīċ ōðer healf ġēar þæt rīċe hæfde.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Heora man āhēng fifte healf hund.


 * 1) * translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- On his fēðeherġe wǣron twā and þrītiġ þūsend, and þæs ġehorsodan fifte healf þūsend, and sċipa ān hund and eahtatiġ.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
 * "ang"

- Nān reġn cōm ofer Eorðan fēorðan healfum ġēare.


 * 1) * The Worcester Chronicle, year 892
 * "ang"

- Sē bāt wæs ġeworht of þriddan healfre hīde þe hīe on fōron.

Usage notes

 * A certain number and a half was expressed with the ordinal of the next highest number, plus the word healf. Thus one and a half is (literally "second half"), two and a half is  ("third half"), twenty-four and a half is fīf and twēntigoþa healf ("twenty-fifth half"), and so forth.


 * Additionally, the noun that "___ and a half" enumerates must be singular: 'six and a half pages' is seofoþa healf tramet, not *seofoþan healfe trametas. The one seeming exception is when "___ and a half" describes another number, as in þridde healf þūsend ċeacena ("two and a half thousand cakes"). Here "cakes" still has to be plural because "two and a half" describes the number of thousands, not the number of cakes. If the phrase was just "two and a half cakes," the noun would indeed be singular: þridde healf ċeace, not *þriddan healfa ċeacan.

Adverb

 * 1) half
 * 2) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- And þā Crētense hæfdon þone grimlīcan siġe, and ealle þā æðelestan bearn þāra Athēniānsa hīe ġenāmon and sealdon þām Mīnōtaurō tō etenne, þæt wæs healf mann, healf lēo.