One and a half
One and a half is a German numeral meaning “one and a half”, ie “1.5” or “1 1/2” (“1 ½”) or “one and a half”. The variant "one and a half" is less common. Mathematically, it is a fraction with the meaning of "three halves" ("3/2").
One and a half is derived from Middle High German Another Halp ( Old High German one half ); Only in Late Middle High German was the connecting “t” added.
"Other" means "second" out of date, so that one and a half actually means "the second half" (in the sense of "the second half"). In this old counting system, after one and a half it continued with a third and a half (two and a half, ie “the first and the second in its entirety, the third half”) and a fourth and a half (three and a half).
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- one and a half. In: duden.de .
- One and a half. In: Adelung, Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Volume 1. Leipzig 1793, pp. 281-282.
- One and a half, sesquialter, one and a half. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 1 : A - Beer whey - (I). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854, Sp. 313 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ third half, third half. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860, Sp. 1423 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ fourth half, fourth half. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 26 : Vesche – Vulkanisch - (XII, 2nd section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1951, Sp. 312 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).