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halb

“halb” is a German word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. half, halfway

adverb

  1. a half-hour before, thirty minutes before (used with the number of the following hour)

Etymology

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.

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