Old English · noun
help
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /xelp/[heɫp]
- Syllables
- xelp (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- help
Meaning
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help
byþ nearu on brēostan, weorþeþ hī ðēah oft niþa bearnum tō helpe and tō hǣle ġehwæþre, ġif hī his hlystaþ ǣror.
Need is burdensome on breasts, however it often comes itself to be to the sons of men as a help and as a healing of each, if they hear it before.
c. 1000, The Rune Poem:
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *helpu, from Proto-Germanic *helpō.
Descendants
help
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