different between halve vs helve

English

Etymology

From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijan? (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??v/
• Rhymes: -??v
• (US) enPR: h?v, IPA^(key): /hæv/
• Rhymes: -æv
• Homophone: have (some accents)

Verb

halve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)

1. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
2. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
3. (transitive) To make up half of.
   • 1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves

     So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.

4. (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
5. (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

Synonyms

• (to divide into two halves): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect

Translations

Anagrams

• Havel, Vahle

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?halv?], [?hall?]

Adjective

halve

1. plural and definite singular attributive of halv

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l.v?/

Adjective

halve

1. Inflected form of half

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

halve (plural halves or halven)

1. Alternative form of half

Etymology 2

From Old English helfe.

Noun

halve

1. Alternative form of helve

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

halve

1. definite singular of halv
2. plural of halv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse halfa

Noun

halve f or m (definite singular halva or halven, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)

1. (a) half

Synonyms

• halvdel
• halvpart

References

• “halve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

halve

1. definite singular of halv
2. plural of halv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse halfa.

Noun

halve f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)

1. a half

Synonyms

• halvdel
• halvpart

References

• “halve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Noun

helve (plural helves)

1. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
   • 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:

     It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve, and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 847:

     Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.

2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Translations

Verb

helve (third-person singular simple present helves, present participle helving, simple past and past participle helved)

1. (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

Finnish

(index he)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *helbeh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Old High German helwa, helawa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hel?e?/, [?he?l?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -el?e
• Syllabification: hel?ve

Noun

helve

1. (botany) lodicule

Declension

Latin

Adjective

helve

1. vocative masculine singular of helvus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hylve, helfe, hilve, halve, alffe, hellfe

Etymology

From Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lv/, /h?lf/, /hilv/

Noun

helve

1. helve (grip of an implement)

Descendants

• English: helve
• Scots: helf

References

• “helve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-06.