FromMiddle Englishholpen,yholpen (past participle ofhelpen(“to help”)), fromOld Englishġeholpen (past participle ofhelpan(“to help”)), fromProto-Germanic*hulpanaz (past participle of*helpaną(“to help”)). More athelp. Cognate withDutchgeholpen(“holpen”) andGermangeholfen(“holpen”).

holpen

1. (archaic)pastparticiple ofhelp
   • 1596,Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] forWilliam Ponsonby,→OCLC, stanza 8,page458:

     […]Was crackt in twaine, but by his fooliſh feare: / Washolpen vp, who him ſupported ſtanding neare.

   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Psalms 86:17,signature Fff, verso, column 2:

     Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſeeit, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou,Lord, haſtholpen me, and comfoꝛted me.

• phenol

holpen

1. pastparticiple ofhölpen

holpen

1. pastparticiple ofhelpen

holpen

1. pastparticiple ofhelpan

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