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"english": "The angel sat on the right side of the tomb.",
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"english": "Ireland is surrounded by ocean on all sides (literally every side).",
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"type": "quotation"
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"text": "translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans\nÞǣr wǣron swā miċele manslihtas on ǣġðre healfe þæt hīe man æt nīehstan bebyrġan ne meahte.",
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"english": "The king promised the apostle half his kingdom.",
"text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"Passion of the Same\"\nSē cyning behēt þām apostole healf his rīċe.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"english": "I give half my property to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I give it back four times over.",
"roman": "Iċ selle þearfum healfe mīne ǣhta, and ġif iċ ǣniġne berēafode, ic hit be fēowerfealdum āġiefe.",
"text": "c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 19:8",
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{
"english": "And then, after him, Eadric ruled the kingdom for a year and a half.",
"text": "late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History\nAnd þā æfter him Ēadrīċ ōðer healf ġēar þæt rīċe hæfde.",
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"english": "Four hundred and fifty of them were hanged (literally four and a half hundred).",
"text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans\nHeora man āhēng fifte healf hund.",
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},
{
"english": "There were thirty-two thousand men in his infantry, four and a half thousand in his cavalry, and one hundred and eighty ships in his navy.",
"text": "translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans\nOn his fēðeherġe wǣron twā and þrītiġ þūsend, and þæs ġehorsodan fifte healf þūsend, and sċipa ān hund and eahtatiġ.",
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"english": "No rain came over Earth for three and a half years.",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year\nNān reġn cōm ofer Eorðan fēorðan healfum ġēare.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"english": "The boat that they traveled on was made of two and a half hides.",
"roman": "Sē bāt wæs ġeworht of þriddan healfre hīde þe hīe on fōron.",
"text": "The Worcester Chronicle, year 892",
"type": "quotation"
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*halb"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *halb",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*halbaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *halbaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "half"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian half",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "half"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon half",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "*half"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *half",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "halb"
},
"expansion": "Old High German halb",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "halfr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse halfr",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.\nCognate with Old Frisian half, Old Saxon half, Old Dutch *half, Old High German halb, Old Norse halfr, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "healf",
"name": "ang-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And the Cretans gained the cruel victory, and took all the noblest children of the Athenians and fed them to the Minotaur (a half man, half lion).",
"text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans\nAnd 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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"half"
],
"links": [
[
"half",
"half"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/xæ͜ɑlf/"
},
{
"ipa": "[hæ͜ɑɫf]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "half"
},
{
"word": "halb"
}
],
"word": "healf"
}
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