köken: From Middle High German halp, from Old High German halb, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz. Compare Dutch half, English half, Danish halv.
half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) · half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) · middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
köken: Borrowed directly from Latin medius (“half”) rather than inherited through an Old Spanish form, possibly because the likely forms *meo and *meyo would have closely resembled mear (“to piss”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. In reference to spiritual mediums, calqued from Latin…
half · half before the next whole · the middle of that month
köken: From Middle Dutch half, from Old Dutch half, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz. Cognate with English half, German halb, West Frisian heal, Danish halv.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates include Finnish puoli (“half, side”), Northern Mansi па̄л (pāl, “half, side”), Hungarian fél (“half”).