halfpenny

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• UK: /ˈhɑːfˌpɛni/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈheɪp(ə)ni/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɑːfˈpɛni/ spelling pronunciation
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• General-American: /ˈheɪp(ə)ni/
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• General-American: /ˌhæfˈpɛni/ spelling pronunciation
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• rhymes with (one pronunciation) -ɛni
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From halfpenny, a nickname for a tenant.

From Middle English halpeni, halfpeni (“English coin worth half a penny; coin used in biblical times; small foreign coin”), and then either: * from half (“half”) (from Old English healf; ultimate etymology unknown, possible from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline”) or *(s)kelH- (“to cut; to separate, split”)) + peni, penni (“English coin; coin used in biblical times; foreign coin; (especially in the plural) cash, money; pennyweight”) (from Old English penning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz (“coin, penny”); further etymology uncertain); or * from Late Old English halpene, halpenige (which can also be construed as early Middle English), from healf + penning (see above). By surface analysis, half + penny.

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نصف بنس — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Bulgarian: половин пени (polovin peni) — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Finnish: puolipenni — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• French: demi-penny — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Irish: leathphingin — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Māori: hēpene — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Polish: półpens — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Polish: półpensówka — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Scottish Gaelic: bonn-a-sè — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Scottish Gaelic: bonn-a-sia — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Vietnamese: niễng mũn — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Welsh: dimai — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Yola: haapney — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Yoruba: eepinni — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Yoruba: igbiwo — discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny; similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland
• Bulgarian: половин пени (polovin peni) — amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth; amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth
• Finnish: puolipenni — amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth; amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth
• Finnish: puolipenninen — postage stamp worth half of one penny
• Finnish: korvamerkki — usually semicircular earmark