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English
Pronunciation
Verb
halp (third-person singular simple present halps, present participle halping, simple past and past participle halped)
- (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
- (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
Thus halp him God.- Thus God helped him.
Usage notes
- The modern form is generally used only as an imperative ("Halp!"). The other forms are more rare. On the Internet it is often associated with lolcats.
Anagrams
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German halp, from Old High German halp, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”). Cognate with German halb, English half.
Adjective
halp (not comparable)
- (Sette Comuni) half
- Halbe lòite zèint ziich. ― Half the people are sick.
Declension
References
- “halp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Irish
Noun
halp m
- h-prothesized form of alp
Verb
halp m
- h-prothesized form of alp
Old Norse
Verb
halp
- third-person singular past indicative active of hjalpa
Swedish
Verb
halp
- (archaic) past indicative of hjälpa