holp

See also: Holp

English

Etymology

From Middle English holp (first and third person singular past indicative of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English healp (same form of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *halp (same form of *helpaną (“to help”)). Cognate with German half, Middle Dutch holp (in modern Dutch replaced with hielp). More at help.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɒlp/, /həʊlp/
• (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) IPA^(key): /hoʊp/
• Rhymes: -ɒlp, -əʊlp

Verb

holp

1. (archaic) simple past of help: helped.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Thou art my warrior; I holp to frame thee.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Both, both, my girl. / By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heav'd thence, / But blessedly holp hither.

2. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help

Anagrams

• hopl-, loph