holp
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /hɒlp/, /həʊlp/
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) IPA(key): /hoʊp/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɒlp, -əʊlp
Verb
editholp
- (archaic) simple past of help
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- Thou art my warrior; I holp to frame thee.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Both, both, my girl. / By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heav'd thence, / But blessedly holp hither.
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
References
edit- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § 2, page 88.
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