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halfmonth

noun

Etymology

From half + month.

  1. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon, month”
  2. inherited from *mēnōþs✻ — “month”
  3. inherited from *mānōþ✻
  4. inherited from mōnaþ
  5. inherited from moneth
  6. compounded as halfmonth — “half + month”

Definitions

  1. A period of time equal to half a month.

  2. A fortnight, a period of time equal to two weeks

    A fortnight, a period of time equal to two weeks; fourteen days.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for halfmonth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA