halfen

English

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Etymology

From half +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːfən/

Adjective

halfen (not comparable)

(obsolete) Lacking half of its due qualities.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  So perfect in that art was Paridell,
  That he Malbeccoes halfen eye did wyle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “halfen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

halfen

first/third-person plural preterite of helfen