helpe

helpe

1. Obsolete spelling of help.

helpe (third-person singular simple present helpes, present participle helping, simple past and past participle helped)

1. Obsolete spelling of help.
   • 1565, Thomas Stapleton, A Fortresse of the Faith: First Planted Amonge Vs Englishmen, and Continued Hitherto in the Vniuersall Church of Christ. The Faith of Which Time Protestants Call, Papistry., Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], part 2, folio 112, recto:

     For iff the patient be aſhamed to diſcloſe his wounde to the phyſician which knoweth it not, phyſicke can not helpe him.

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helpe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of helpen

From Old Dutch helpa, from Proto-Germanic *helpō.

helpe f

1. help, assistance
2. help, helper

• hulpe

• Dutch: hulp
• Limburgish: hölp

• “helpe (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “helpe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• IPA^(key): /ˈxel.pe/, [ˈheɫ.pe]

helpe

1. inflection of help:
   1. nominative/accusative plural
   2. accusative/genitive/dative singular

From Old Frisian helpa, from Proto-West Germanic *helpan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlpə/

helpe

1. to help

• help

• “helpe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011