helpan

helpan

1. accusative singular of helpa

From Proto-West Germanic *helpan, from Proto-Germanic *helpaną.

helpan

1. to help, to assist [with dative]

• Middle Dutch: helpen
  • Dutch: helpen
    • Afrikaans: help
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: helpu
    • Javindo: helpen
    • Jersey Dutch: hälpe
    • Negerhollands: help
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: halp
    • → Caribbean Javanese: hèlep, ngèlep
  • Limburgish: hèlpe

• “helpan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *helpaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxel.pɑn/, [ˈheɫ.pɑn]

helpan

1. to help (+dative or genitive)
   • 11th century, note from a copyist at the end of Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni

     God helpe mīnum handum.

     God help my hands.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, The Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary

     On þissum wræcfullum līfe, wē sċulon earmra manna helpan.

     In this life of exile, we should help poor people.

   • c. 1013, Wulfstan, Sermon of the Wolf to the English‎^[1]:

     God ūre helpe.

     God help us.

• Middle English: helpen, help, elp, helpi, healpe, heolpe, halpen, hælpan
  • English: help
  • Scots: help
  • Yola: help

hëlpan (Central German)

1. alternative form of hëlfan

From Proto-West Germanic *helpan, from Proto-Germanic *helpaną.

helpan

1. to help

• Middle Low German: helpen
  • Low German: helpen
    • German Low German: helpen, hölpen, hülpen