• IPA^(key): /hælp/,/hɔːlp/
• Rhymes:-ælp,-ɔːlp

halp (third-person singular simple presenthalps,present participlehalping,simple past and past participlehalped)

1. (nonstandard, humorous)Alternative spelling ofhelp.
2. (obsolete)Alternative form ofholp(“helped”).
   • 1387–1400,Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, inThe Canterbury Tales, [Westminster:William Caxton, published1478],→OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […],[London]: […] [Richard Grafton for]Iohn Reynes […],1542,→OCLC:

     Thushalp him God.

     Thus Godhelped him.

• The modern form is generally used only as an interjection ("Halp!"). The other forms are more rare. On the Internet it is often associated withlolcats, where anyhalp given is unlikely to be helpful.

• Pahl,phal

FromMiddle High Germanhalp, fromOld High Germanhalp, fromProto-West Germanic*halb, fromProto-Germanic*halbaz(“half”). Cognate withGermanhalb,Englishhalf.

halp (not comparable)

1. (Sette Comuni)half

   Halbe lòite zèint ziich. ―Half the people are sick.

• “halp” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

halp m

1. h-prothesized form ofalp

halp m

1. h-prothesized form ofalp

halp

1. third-personsingularpastindicativeactive ofhjalpa

halp

1. (archaic)pastindicative ofhjälpa

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