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English
Etymology
From Middle English holpen, yholpen (past participle of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English ġeholpen (past participle of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *hulpanaz (past participle of *helpaną (“to help”)). More at help. Cognate with Dutch geholpen (“holpen”) and German geholfen (“holpen”).
Verb
holpen
- (archaic) past participle of help
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 458:[…] Was crackt in twaine, but by his fooliſh feare: / Was holpen vp, who him ſupported ſtanding neare.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Psalms 86:17:Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
Anagrams
Low German
Verb
holpen
- past participle of hölpen
Middle English
Verb
holpen
- past participle of helpen
Old English
Verb
holpen
- past participle of helpan