English

half-awake

From half- + awake.

A compound of half- + awake

Proto-Germanic *halbaz ‘half’

Proto-Germanic *halba-

English half-

Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- ‘to be lively, awake’

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Old English wacan ‘to awake, arise, originate, to be born’

Old English āwacan ‘to wake up’

Middle English awaken ‘to awaken’

Middle English awake

English awake

Today it means

adj Barely awake.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / half-awake