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HALVE
Definition of HALVE
verb
To reduce to half the original amount.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“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”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,856)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HALVE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Middle Dutch, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HALVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HALVE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHLV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HALVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HALVE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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