Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorysimple past of help: helped. · past participle of help.
From Middle English holp (first and third person singular past indicative of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English healp (same form of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *halp (same form of *helpaną (“to help”)). Cognate with German half, Middle Dutch holp (in modern Dutch replaced with hielp). More at help.
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