halp
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Thus halp him God.
- Thus God helped him.
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
Cimbrian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
halp (not comparable)
- (Sette Comuni) half
- Halbe lòite zèint ziich. ― Half the people are sick.
Declension edit
Positive forms of halp
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | èar ist halp | zi ist halp | is ist halp | ze zèint halp | |
with definite article | nominative | dar halbe | de halba | 's halbe | de halben |
accusative | in halben | de halba | 's halbe | de halben | |
dative | me halben | dar halben | me halben | in halben | |
with indefinite article | nominative | an halbar | an halba | an halbes | (khòone) halben |
accusative | an halben | an halba | an halbes | (khòone) halben | |
dative | aname halben | anara halben | aname halben | (khòonen) halben | |
without article | nominative | halbe | |||
accusative | halbe | ||||
dative | halben |
References edit
- “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 edit
Noun edit
halp m
- h-prothesized form of alp
Verb edit
halp m
- h-prothesized form of alp
Old Norse edit
Verb edit
halp
Swedish edit
Verb edit
halp
- (archaic) past indicative of hjälpa